Legal Opinion
Jacuzzi Bros. v. Berkeley Pump Co.
District Court, N.D. California
Decided February 23, 1950No. 27905PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GOODMAN, District Judge.
The evidence introduced at the trial of this patent infringement suit clearly established that some of the claims of the two patents assigned to the plaintiff, if they are valid, have been infringed by pumps which the defendant has manufactured and sold. The principal and most difficult issue to resolve is whether these claims are void for want of novelty or invention.
*239The two patents relate to centrifugal pumps, both with and without attached injector assemblies, and pumping systems of which such pumps and assemblies are a part. Both centrifugal pumps and injector…
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