Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Co. v. Phillips Petroleum Co.

MORRIS, District Judge.

The patents - in issue in this suit of Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corporation against Phillips Petroleum Company, No. 1,465,598 to De Brey, and Nos. 1,429,175 and 1,523,314 to Thompson, were litigated in Carbide & Carbon Chemicals Corporation v. Texas Co., 21 F.(2d) 199 (D. C. S. D. Tex.). The claims there considered and set out at length in an appendix to the opinion were all held invalid. The defendant here is alleged to have infringed the same claims, with the exception of 5 and 6 of the second Thompson patent, together with claim 1 of the first Thompson patent.

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