Legal Opinion
Air Reduction Co. v. Carbo-Oxygen Co.
District Court, D. Delaware
Decided September 18, 1926No. 578PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS, District Judge.
Patents No. 959,563 and No. 957,170, for improvements in the method of separating gases from their mixtures, particularly oxygen and nitrogen from atmospheric air, constitute the basis of this infringement suit of Air Reduction Company against Carbo-Oxygen Company, in which the defenses are invalidity because of the prior art, insufficiency of disclosure, inoperativeness, and noninfringement.
The desired product of the separation is oxygen. Levy and HelhrOnner, the patentees, were not the first to obtain oxygen from the air. By the processes of their patents in suit, of…
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