Legal Opinion
Jewell W. Vanderveer v. Erie Malleable Iron Company
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 19, 1956No. 11951_1PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARIS, Circuit Judge.
The question presented on this appeal is whether a state court decision in a suit for royalties under a patent license agreement that the licensee’s device was not within the scope of the patent bars the litigation of the issue whether the same device infringes the same patent in a subsequent infringement suit between the same parties in the federal court.
The plaintiff, Jewell W. Vanderveer, and the defendant, Erie Malleable Iron Company, are both citizens of Pennsylvania. The plaintiff brought the present action in the District Court for the Western District of…
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