Allen-Bradley Company, a Wisconsin Corporation v. Air Reduction Company, Inc., a New York Corporation

OPINION OF THE COURT

This appeal in a patent infringement suit questions the appropriateness of granting the defendant’s motion for summary judgment on the ground that the patent in suit and prior art patents show that the alleged invention was an obvious adaption and aggregation of simple and familiar concepts and devices disclosed in the prior art.

The claimed invention relates to convenient packaging means for uniform small articles, particularly electrical resistors having cylindrical bodies and thin deformable lead wires such as are used in large quantity in electronic circuits. The court…