Legal Opinion
Black, Sivalls & Bryson, Inc. v. Keystone Steel Fabrication, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 20, 1978No. Nos. 76-1886, 76-1887PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McKAY, Circuit Judge.
At great expense, plaintiff Black, Sivalls & Bryson, Inc. (BS&B) acquired the patent and developed a market for a device designed to uniformly heat certain industrial fluids. The process involves the passage of fluids through tubes which are warmed by superheated air from a burner. The principal design difficulties in this process relate to the optimum tube wall thickness for heat convection and the best method of passing the heat uniformly over the tubes themselves. When defendant Smalling,1 the former head of BS&B’s heater sales group, left BS&B and immediately began to…
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