E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co. v. Byrnes

HULBERT, District Judge.

The petitioner will be referred to as DuPont and the respondent as Byrnes.

This motion brings up for consideration objections to certain interrogatories propounded by DuPont, who seeks a declaratory judgment (Judicial Code, § 274d, Sec. 400, Title 28, U.S.C.A.) that the process used and the product produced by DuPont in the manufacture of sulphuric acid esters* of high normal primary alcohols does not infringe U. S. Letters Patent No. 2,085,500, issued to Byrnes, as Trustee, June 29, 1937, for treatment of oxygen derivatives of hydrocarbons and in which aliphatic…