Texas Co. v. Anderson-Prichard Refining Corp.

KENNEDY, District Judge.

This is a patent case involving oil cracking process Patent No. 1,883,850 issued October 18, 1932, to Otto Behimer and assigned to the plaintiff company. The set-up of this law suit portends a battle of the giants in the petroleum refining industry. The record discloses that the principal patents involving oil cracking in the industry are concentrated in two corporations known as the Universal Oil Products Company, which is a subsidiary controlled by the Shell, the Standard of *348California, and the Atlantic Refining; and the Gasoline Products Company, which is a…