International Vitamin Corp. v. E. R. Squibb & Sons

GALSTON, District Judge.

This is a suit in which infringement is alleged of letters patent No. 1,600,091, granted October 30, 1928, to Joseph K. Marcus, for a process for extracting the nonsaponifiable and “difficulty-saponifiable” matter from fatty material. Although some prior art is referred to, the solo defense is noninfringement.

Tho art involved is one of extreme interest. It relates to the process of extracting vitamins from fatty materials. The specification states that various animal and vegetable oils and fats contain vitamins which are removable by extraction “together with the other…