Union Carbide Corp. v. Graver Tank & Mfg. Co.

MAJOR, Circuit Judge.

These appeals are from a final judgment in favor of plaintiff, entered August 26, 1959, after accounting, for infringement of claims 18, 20, 22 and 23 of patent No. 2,043,960 on a welding flux (sometimes referred to as Jones or the patent in suit). Judgment was rendered in the amount of $3,010,077.16, apportioned as follows:

Award of damages based

on reasonable royalty.. $1,361,891.25

Interest at 6% per annum from June 30, 1950, the date of the last infringement ................ 748,185.91 Additional damages..... 900,000.00

Plaintiff, Union Carbide Corporation (hereinafter…