Legal Opinion
Owens-Illinois, Inc. v. Emhart Industries, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 12, 1981No. 22, Docket 80-7240PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
VAN GRAAFEILAND, Circuit Judge:
This is an appeal from a judgment of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut upholding the validity of a 1971 patent covering “Apparatus for Handling Mold Charges of Molten Glass.” 1 The judgment also held that defendant had infringed plaintiff’s patent and that plaintiff was entitled to an accounting and an injunction against further infringement.. We reverse.
Defendant’s principal contention on appeal is that, because the differences between the Trudeau patent and a 1935 patent for a “Glass Working Machine” 2 would have been obvious to…
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