Legal Opinion
Trio Process Corporation, in No. 71-1295 v. L. Goldstein's Sons, Inc., in No. 71-1296
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided May 22, 1972No. 71-1295, 71-1296PublishedCited by 101 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
In this patent infringement case, we must first determine the validity of United States Patent No. 3,076,421, issued to Albert W. Spitz (Spitz) and owned by Trio Process Corp. (Trio), and then decide whether the district court’s finding of willful infringement is correct.
The primary issue of validity is whether the process disclosed in the patent was obvious to a practitioner with ordinary skill in the appropriate art at the time the process was developed. The infringement issue can be resolved by determining whether Trio is precluded by “file-wrapper…
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