Legal Opinion
United States of America Ex Rel. Shell Oil Company v. Barco Corporation and John Barakat
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided August 13, 1970No. 19996_1PublishedCited by 47 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MATTHES, Chief Judge.
Appellants, the Barco Corporation and its president, John Barakat, were found guilty of criminal contempt of court for disobedience of the district court’s order enjoining their further infringement of a patent held by Shell Oil Company (Shell). For the reasons hereinafter expressed, we affirm.
In 1966, Shell instituted a civil action in the district court charging appellants with infringing United States Patent No. 2,956,073 by the manufacture and sale of dimethyl dichloro vinyl phosphate, an agriculture insecticide commonly referred to as DDVP. Prior to trial the parties…
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