Bereslavsky v. Esso Standard Oil Co.

PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is an appeal in a patent infringement suit. Plaintiff is the owner oi a patent, now expired, on a motor fuel described in the claims as “containing a compound belonging to the mesitylene group”. Defendant is the Esso, Standard Oil Company, which manufactured and delivered motor fuel containing such a compound pursuant to a contract with the Defense Supplies Corporation, a corporation which was wholly owned by the United States through ownership of its stock by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and which acted s.s an agency of the government in procuring supplies…