Legal Opinion
Townsend v. Lorraine
District Court, S.D. California
Decided September 11, 1922No. E-113PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
WOLVERTON, District Judge.
Complainants are the rightful owners of a patent on a crude oil and natural gas separator, No. 1,269,134, issued June 11, 1918, application for which was filed November 14, 1914, and claim that the same has been infringed by defendant’s reissue patent of November 8, 1921, No. 15,220, and an apparatus recently constructed' of somewhat similar design. The defendant does -not question the validity of complainants’ patent, but claims that he does not infringe, for two reasons: First, that complainants are estopped, hy reason of the proceeding before the Patent Examiner,…
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