Legal Opinion
Horine v. Ethicon, Inc.
District Court, D. Maryland
Decided June 15, 1956No. 8010PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMSEN, Chief Judge.
The principal issue in this case is whether a suture package, manufactured by defendant Ethicon during the years 1951 to 1954, infringes any of the claims in two patents issued to plaintiff in 1940.x>1, 2 In brief, these claims embrace the combination in a suture package of (1) a conical bobbin, (2) a twisted suture strand wound helically in a single layer thereon, with each convolution around the bobbin in closely adjacent relationship, and (3) with either (a) an additional twist administered to the strand during winding, or (b) means at the base of the conical bobbin to…
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