Legal Opinion
U. S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. v. Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corp.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 27, 1942No. 680PublishedCited by 108 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Me. Justice- Robeets
delivered the opinion of the Court.
This is a suit by the respondent to restrain the petitioner from infringing claims 8 and 9 of reissue patent No. 20,370. The application for reissue was filed September 25, 1936, and granted May 18, 1937. The original patent was No. 1,998,878, applied for March 22, 1932, and granted April 23, 1935, to Theodore Emile Lefort, of Paris, France, for a “Process for the Production of Ethylene Oxide.” The application was based on earlier French patents. The respondent purchased the United States patent in April 1936 and, as a result of its study…
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