Curtiss-Wright Corporation v. Link Aviation, Inc.

BRENNAN, Chief Judge.

This is the usual patent infringement action requesting the usual relief. The problems involved therein are rendered difficult because of the complex nature of the inventions claimed and the machines involved. Plaintiff’s devices principally contemplate an all-electrieally operated blind flight airplane trainer as distinguished from pneumatically or hydraulically operated machines. The lengthy record is made up of evidence involving aeronautics, electrical engineering, aerodynamics and mathematics, the understanding of which taxes the capacity of one untrained therein.…