Legal Opinion
In Re Smith Patent Litigation
United States Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation
Decided February 13, 1976No. 232PublishedCited by 60 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
Before JOHN MINOR WISDOM, Chairman, and EDWARD WEINFELD, EDWIN A. ROBSON, WILLIAM H. BECKER, JOSEPH S. LORD, III, STANLEY A. WEIGEL, and ANDREW A. CAFFREY, Judges of the Panel. PER CURIAM.
Joseph F. Smith operates a machine shop in Greensboro, North Carolina, and is the holder of United States Patent No. 3,180,074, which relates to a high-speed, false twist spindle apparatus. Such a spindle is apparently useless until included as part of a textile yarn processing machine, typically referred to as a false twist machine. In practice, these machines are utilized to convert…
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