Legal Opinion
Kansas City Southern Ry. Co. v. Silica Products Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided March 13, 1931No. 8954PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBooth, Circuit Judge
This is a patent suit in conventional form involving reissue patent No. 17,207, granted to Orlando A. Collings, February 5,1929, for “waterproof plastic.” The original patent, No. 1,650,864, was granted November 29, 1927; application filed April 3, 1922. Ownership is in appellee, Silica Products Company, plaintiff below.
In the specifications of the original patent, as well as in the reissue, the invention is thus described:
“This invention relates to waterproof plasties; and it comprises a method of waterproofing concrete, stucco, plaster of Paris, etc., wherein the materials employed for…
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