Reynolds v. Whitin MacH. Works

PARKER, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal in a suit instituted by W. G. Reynolds and others against the Whitin Machine Works involving Reynolds patent No. 2,238,659, covering an improved process of cotton roving and an improved cotton roving frame. Damages were asked for infringement of the patent and also on the ground that defendant in violation of the rights of the plaintiffs had appropriated and used confidential information which plaintiff Reynolds had imparted to one Banfield, who after acquiring the information had been employed by defendant. The District Judge held the patent valid and…