Elrick Rim Co. v. Cheek

YANKWICH, District Judge.

Before us is the Report of the Special Master, Leslie S. Bowden, Esq., filed January 24, 1961, determining damages, and the exceptions thereto, filed March 6, 1961. This is what I hope will be the final step in a patent litigation of long standing. It turns around the Letters Patent No. 272,148 issued to Ralph R. Reading on October 18, 1955. The original application sought a patent on a spraying apparatus and the method of applying it. Later, the application was divided and the patent as issued contained four claims, all relating to a method of applying rubber cement.

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