Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Jackson
Writs of certiorari have been granted, 335 U. S. 810, to review two judgments of the Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit involving the same patent. What we shall call the Jones patent was No. 2,043,960, issued to Lloyd Theodore Jones and others, for an electric welding process and for fluxes, or compositions, to be used therewith. The patent is now owned by The Linde Air Products Company, which brought an action for infringement against the Lincoln and two Graver companies.
The District Court held four of the flux claims valid and infringed and concluded that the patent owner had not…
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