Legal Opinion
Smoley v. New Jersey Zinc Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided August 4, 1939No. 6975PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARIS, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the District Court for the District of New Jersey dismissing a suit in equity.
The plaintiff averred in his bill that in 1928 he invented an entirely new method of separating zinc from cadmium and lead by means of a rectifying column and the use of a continuous process of fractional distillation and rectification; that this method had been used in the refining of petroleum but had never been applied to metals; that he divulged his idea to employees of the defendant who wrongfully appropriated it; that foreign and domestic patents thereon…
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