Vegetable Oil Products Co. v. Dorward & Sons Co.

GOODMAN, District Judge.

Vital to a proper understanding of the issues involved in this patent infringement suit is the story of the relationship between the parties to the controversy.

In 1933, plaintiff corporation, whose business, among other things, is to treat, manufacture and sell vegetable and marine oils, employed, at its Los Angeles plant, one Otho M. Behr, as its chief paint chemist. Behr, a graduate of the University of California, and a research chemist experienced in paint oils, devoted himself, while in plaintiff’s employ, to the development of fast drying paint oils from…