Legal Opinion
Reading & Bates Construction Company v. Baker Energy Resources Corporation and Baker Marine Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided November 15, 1984No. Appeal 84-527PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RICH, Circuit Judge.
This appeal is from the September 8, 1983, judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas, sitting without a jury, holding that U.S. patent No. 4,003,440 (’440) issued January 18,1977, on the invention of Martin D. Cherrington (Cherrington) and subsequently assigned to appellant Reading & Bates Construction Company for “Apparatus and Process for Drilling Underground Arcuate Paths Utilizing Directional Drill and Following Liner” was invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 103. We affirm.
Background
Reading & Bates Construction Company (Reading & Bates), a…
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