Legal Opinion
Hartford-Empire Co. v. Swindell Bros.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 21, 1938No. 4273PublishedCited by 28 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PARKER, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal in a patent infringement suit involving Mulholland reissue patent, No. 17,263, Ingle patent, No, 1,583,046, and Mulholland patent, No. 1,840,463, all relating to lehrs for the annealing of glassware. The judge below held that, as the patents related to improvements in a crowded art, they should be narrowly construed and that, when so construed, they were not infringed by the lehr of defendants. See Hartford-Empire Co. v. Swindell Bros., D. C, 18 F.Supp. 191.
Annealing is a process of controlled heating and cooling of newly made glassware to eliminate or…
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