83 F. Supp. 178 | W.D. Pa. | 1949
This action was predicated upon a complaint to authorize issuance of patent and
The complaint was brought under Section 4915 of the Revised Statutes, 35 U.S. C.A. § 63, and alleged, inter alia, that Nicholas L. Etten, hereinafter called “Et-ten,” on December 23, 1932,. filed in the United States Patent Office an application for Letters Patent on his invention of certain improvements in wringers, Serial No. 648,620, on which application Letters Patent No. 2,054,970 was duly granted on September 22, 1936. That Etten filed an application for reissue of the said patent on October 7, 1937, Serial No. 167,775.
That on September 3, 1935, Etten filed in the United States Patent Office an application for Letters Patent on his invention of certain improvements in wringer release mechanism, Serial No. 38,932.
That on October 25, 1934, Gustave H. Jantz, since deceased, alleging to be the inventor of certain improvements in wringers, filed an application for Letters Patent of the United States, Serial No. 749,977, the legal title to which application was assigned to Lovéll Manufacturing Company, hereinafter called “Lovell,” this assignment being subsequently recorded in the United States Patent Office.
That on February 15, 1938, the Commissioner of Patents declared an interference, No. 75,433, between the Etten application, Serial No. 38,932, filed September 3, 1935, and the Jantz application, Serial No. 749,-977, filed. October 25, 1934, the issue of which interference comprised the following count:
“In a wringer, a frame, rolls mounted in the frame, a removable top bar on the frame, pressure means between the top bar and the rolls, means for detachably securing one end of the bar to the frame, securing means between the other end of the bar and the frame comprising a toggle with one link pivoted to the frame, the other link pivoted to the bar and to said first link, and having an extension forming a handle for manipulating said toggle, the construction being such that the pivots of said links may be brought close to but short of a straight line position, whereby pressure between the bar and the frame will bias said toggle into a released position, and latching connections between said frame and said extension to secure said toggle in a pressure retaining position.”
That thereafter, on April 25, 1939, the Commissioner of Patents declared an interference, No. 76,987, between the Etten reissue application, Serial No. 167,775 and the Jantz application, Serial No. 749,977, the issue of which interference comprised the following counts:
“In a wringer, a frame, rolls mounted in the frame, a removable top bar on the frame, pressure means between the top bar and the rolls, means for detachably securing one end of the bar to the frame, securing means between the other end of the bar and the frame comprising á toggle with one link pivoted to the frame, the other link pivoted to the bar and to said first link, the construction being such that the pivots of said links may be brought close to but short of a straight line position, whereby pressure between the bar and the frame will bias said toggle into a released position, and latching means to secure said toggle in a pressure retaining position.”
“In a wringer structure in combination a frame having upright portions, wringer rolls supported by the upright portions of said frame, a separable cross head member supported by said upright portions, adjustable spring means carried by said cross head member for normally holding said wringer rolls in pressure contact, toggle link mechanism having inseparable members for retaining said cross head member in normal working position and joining the cross head to at least one of the upright portions, a movable latch member for holding the toggle mechanism in operable relation when retained in holding position and so that the pressure load is divided between the toggle mechanism and latch, said spring means being operable to move the toggle mechanism when the. latch is riot retained in holding position whereby the pressure between the rolls is released.”
That after hearing on said Interferences No. 75,433 and No. 76,987, the Examiner of Interferences of the Patent Office awarded priority therein to Jantz. That on appeal the decision of the said Examiner was affirmed by the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office. That no appeal has been taken by the plaintiff on either of said Interferences, No. 75,433 or No. 76,987, to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals to review the decision of the Board of Appeals. That in the said interferences the defendants, Walter L. Kauffman, II, hereinafter called “Kauff-man,” Lovell, and their assignor, Jantz, conspired in the concealment of material evidence, put in evidence false and untrue testimony as to material facts, knowing the same to be false and untrue and with the intention that they be relied upon by the United States Commissioner of Patents, the Examiner of Interferences, and the Board of Appeals of the United States Patent Office; that the said officials did rely upon said false and untrue testimony, resulting in the awarding of priority of invention 'Of the subject matter of said interferences to the said Gustave H. Jantz.
The answer denies that plaintiff has a right to maintain an action under Section 4915 of the Revised Statutes, 35 U.S.C.A. § 63, and further asserts that “Defendants can find no complaint for declaratory judgment.” Defendant further’ contends that plaintiff by taking an appeal to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals under Section 4911 of the Revised Statutes, 35 U.S.C.A. § 59a, in Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672, having the same record as Interferences Nos. 75,433 and 76,987, has waived his right to proceed under Section 4915 and that the plaintiff is estopped here because of the adjudication of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals. -
On October 21, 1947, in view of the fact that subsequent to the filing of the original action under Section 4915 the “Jantz” patent had been issued, the plaintiff moved to include an action under Section 4918, 35 U.S.C.A. § 66. Accordingly, the plaintiff was permitted to amend his Bill of Complaint on his motion setting forth that on September 3, 1946, Jantz’s application, Serial No. 749,977, filed October 25, 1934, issued to defendant, Lovell Manufacturing Company, as Letters Patent No. 2,406,951; that said patent is in direct conflict with plaintiff’s Letters Patent No. 2.054.970, hereinabove referred to.
Defendant then filed a supplemental answer (paragraphs 26 to 29 inclusive) and counterclaim for patent infringement (paragraphs 30 to 34 inclusive).
Paragraph 26 averred that Jantz was the first inventor of the invention defined in his Patent No. 2,406,951 issued September 3, 1946, on application Serial No. 749,977, filed October 25, 1934.
Paragraph 27 averred the unpatentability of claims 5 and 6 of Etten Patent No. 2.054.970.
Paragraph 29 averred plaintiff could not assert claims 2, 5, and 13 of his Patent No. 2,054,970 under Revised Statutes 4918, or, in the alternative, plaintiff must dismiss his cause under Revised Statutes 4915 before asserting his cause under Revised Statutes 4918.
Plaintiff moved to strike paragraphs 27, 28, and 29 of the supplemental answer aforesaid.
On December 8, 1947, plaintiff filed motion to dismiss under Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Rule 12(b), 28 U.S.C.A., defendants’ counterclaim for patent, infringement.
After argument had and with the agreement of counsel, the Court, on December 9, 1947, ordered:
1. That motion is denied as to paragraphs 28 and 29 upon express understanding of defendants’ counsel that as to the subject matter of these paragraphs no further testimony, evidence dr argument would be adduced, but as to the defenses raised
2. That motion is granted as to paragraph 27 with the understanding defendants are not to be prejudiced thereby from raising the same defense of unpatentability as to claims 5 and 6 of Etten Patent No. 2,054,970, or any reissue in any suit that may hereafter be brought by the parties for patent infringement.
3. The order, carrying the signed approval of counsel for plaintiff and defendants, further stated, “It is further understood that both parties hereto have concluded their respective cases as to the original and amended complaint and that no further evidence or testimony will be adduced herein in connection with the causes of action of said original and amended complaints.”
At the hearing it was agreed that in the event plaintiff’s motion to dismiss the counterclaim for patent infringement (paragraphs 30 to 34 of defendants’ supplemental answer) were refused, the proper procedure would be to direct a separate trial which would necessitate the taking of additional testimony, and with that understanding, the case, exclusive of the counterclaim, was closed.
On December 19, 1947, plaintiff filed notice and supplemental affidavit in support of his motion to dismiss counterclaim.
On December 30, 1947, defendants filed a request to defer decision on the 4915 and 4918 actions until the status of the plaintiff, Etten, is clarified; that the Chamberlain Corporation is the party in interest, and that accordingly the absence of indispensable parties goes to the jurisdiction of the Court. In support thereof, defendants filed therewith a paper purporting to be uncerti-fied excerpts from sworn statements of Et-ten in Public Use Proceedings, Nicholas L. Etten v. Gustave H. Jantz, involving Jantz application Serial No. 749,977 (forming part of affidavit of Ralph Hammer) ; affidavit of Ralph Hammer; also interrogatories to plaintiff, and notice to counsel for plaintiff of the filing by defendants of the said motion and related papers.
On January 9, 1948, plaintiff filed motion to strike under Rule 12(f) defendants’ notice of December 30, .1947, together with the papers referred to therein and attached thereto.
Findings of Fact
1. The complaint, as amended, sets forth claims under Section 4915, R.S., 35 U.S.C.A. § 63, and Section 4918, R.S., 35 U.S.C.A. §66.
2. The parties hereto had previously been involved in a series of four co-pending Patent Office Interferences, including the two here involved, Nos. 75,433 and 76,987, first declared on February 15, 1938, and April 25, 1939, respectively, and two not here specifically involved, Nos. 77,671 and 77,672, first declared on November 8, 1939.
3. The Jantz application, Serial No. 749,-977, filed on October 25, 1934, which issued after the filing of this suit into Letters Patent No. 2,406,951 on September 3, 1946, was involved in all four of these interferences. The Etten reissue application, Serial No. 167,775, was involved only in Interference No. 76,987. Etten’s application, Serial No. 38,932, filed on September 3, 1935, was involved in Interference No. 75,433, which includes only a single count or claim here in suit, and was also involved in Interference No. 77,671. Etten Patent No. 2,054,970 was involved in Interference No. 77,672.
4. Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672, not here in suit, were declared after October 5, 1939, and were subject to the provisions of the United States Statutes, Section 4904, R.S. and Section 4911, R.S., 35 U.S.C.A. §§ 52 and 59a, as- amended on August 5,1939, c. 451, § 3, 53 Stat. 1212, and Section 4915, R.S. as well as 4904 and 4911, R.S., since all three statutes were amended.
5. Interferences Nos. 76,987 and 75,433, the four counts or claims of which are here specifically in suit, were declared prior to October 5, 1939, and were subject to the laws in force and effect prior to the above said amendment of the Revised Statutes 4904, 4911, and 4915.
6. By stipulations filed in the Patent Office proceedings it was agreed that depositions on behalf of Etten taken September 9,
7. The Patent Office Examiner of Interferences considered the testimony before him in connection with Interferences Nos. 75,433 and 76,987 here involved, and on April 23, 1942, awarded priority to Gustave H. Jantz.
8. Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672,-not here involved, were not decided by the Examiner of Interferences but were decided by the newly created Board of Interference Examiners which Board, in a decision dated. April 23, 1942, awarded priority to Gustave H. Jantz.
9. Nicholas L. Etten, the losing party in Patent Office Interferences Nos. 75,433 and 76,987 here involved, duly took an appeal to the Patent Office Board of Appeals and that tribunal on April 24, 1943, affirmed the decision of the Examiner of Interferences awarding priority to Gustave H. Jantz. The decision-of the Board of Interference Examiners in the two companion Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672 not here involved, which came under the new amended practice were not appealable to the Board of Appeals as such an appeal under the amended practice was no longer provided for, and Nicholas L. Etten, the plaintiff herein, appealed the decisions to the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals under Section 4911 R.S. as amended.
10. The- Court of Customs and Patent Appeals decided the appeals in Etten v. Jantz, 142 F.2d 680, 31 C.C.P.A., Patents, 1177, Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672, not here involved, on January 3, 1944, solely on the basis of the record before the Patent Office Board of Interference Examiners and affirmed that Board’s award of priority in favor of Gustave H. Jantz.
11. The Patent Office Examiner of Interferences, the Board of Interference Examiners, the Board of Appeals, and the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals did not in the aforesaid decisions, as to any of the four interferences including the two here involved, have before them the new and additional evidence adduced by plaintiff during the trial of this case.
12. As to Interferences Nos. 75,433 and 76,987 involved in this suit, the plaintiff elected under the applicable statutes Sections 4911 and 4915, unamended, not to take an appeal as to these two interferences but instead plaintiff filed this suit in equity under Section 4915 and had a trial de novo before this Court.
13. The counts or claims of Interferences. Nos. 75,433 and 76,987 involved in this suit under Section 4915, R.S., are directed to different inventions than the counts or claims, of the two companion Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672 decided by the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals; and the tribunals in the Patent Office which decided the-issue in the interferences here in suit (Nos. 75,433 and 76,987) were entirely different from the tribunal that passed on the issue of the two later Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672.
14. At the time of the filing of this suit,, the aforesaid Jantz application, Serial No. 749,977 (now issued as Letters Patent No. 2,406,951) was assigned to and admittedly owned by defendant Lovell, and each of the aforesaid Etten applications were owned by the plaintiff herein (Plaintiff’s Exhibits Nos. 139 and 140.)
15. H. C. Lord, of Counsel for defendant, prior to the taking the Patent Office Interference testimony on behalf of the party Jantz, negotiated with the aged Jantz, now deceased, to acquire the Jantz application, and purchased the application on March 16, 1938, for defendant Lovell on an installment plan wherein the final payment of $1500 to Jantz was contingent upon either Jantz or Kauffman being finally adjudged to be the first inventor of the toggle release wringer.
16. The assignment from Jantz to Lov-ell (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 31) was not, however, récorded until April 30, 1942, which was not only after the testimony of
17. Defendants had knowledge of the plaintiff Etten’s effective application filing date of December 23, 1932, prior to the filing of sworn-to preliminary statements by Jantz in the Patent Office Interference, setting forth the dates of invention on which Jantz would rely.
18. The original preliminary statement (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 166) executed by Jantz on March 16, 1938, setting forth a date of invention of March 1, 1933, were concealed in the files of H. C. Lord, Attorney for defendants, because the dates alleged therein were subsequent to Etten’s filing date of December 23, 1932, and at no time were produced during the Patent Office Interferences.
19. While previous to this trial the records of defendants and their counsel had been produced with the statement by defendants’ counsel that they were the complete records, nevertheless, defendants’ counsel was still concealing and suppressing the Jantz original preliminary statements (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 166) dated March 16, 1938; and this suppression was continued by defendants and their counsel until the last day of the trial, and the statements were even then produced only under compulsion and in an effort to avoid having Mr. Lord appear in person in response to the subpoena and the repeated requests of this Court that he appear and testify at the trial.
20. Subsequent to the execution of these original concealed statements, defendant Kauffman contacted the aged Jantz and by coercive tactics induced him to sign an amended preliminary statement setting forth earlier dates of invention.
21. The Patent Office records in connection with the interference proceedings include sworn affidavits of Gustave H. Jantz and A. F. Herbsleb (prepared and submitted by the defendants’ Attorneys) positively representing that all of the records of the Corcoran Manufacturing Company had been destroyed, although various Corcoran Manufacturing Company records, including Exhibits Nos. 52 and 53, bearing dates of June 13, 1933, and November 17, 1933, were actually in the files and records of H. C. Lord, the Attorney for the defendants, and fully available at the time of the execution and filing of these false affidavits in the Patent Office.
22. Jantz’s Exhibit “O” has now been conclusively shown not to have been in existence in the Spring of 1932, as testified to in the Patent Office proceedings, but instead to have been made in 1933.
23. Plaintiff completed the inventions of the counts or claims here in suit at least as early as the Fall of 1932, at which time these inventions were reduced to practice at the plant of the Chamberlain Corporation of Waterloo, Iowa, and which culminated in the December 23, 1932, application of Etten Patent No. 2,054,970.
24. Jantz did not complete his Exhibit "O” nor reduce his inventions to practice until sometime in the month of April, 1933.
25. As between the parties to this suit, the plaintiff, Etten, is entitled to priority on the subject matter of his application for reissue, Serial No. 167,775, here in suit, and of the subject matter of his application, Serial No. 38,932, here in suit, and which subject matters include the three counts of Interference No. 76,987 and the single count of Interference No. 75,433.
26. Gustave H. Jantz Letters Patent No. 2,406,951 embraces subject matter including claims such as and like claims 2 and 13, which are in direct conflict and in interference with plaintiff’s Letters Patent No. 2,054,970- (on which application for reissue Letters Patent is pending), so that as to any and all such conflicting subject matter the plaintiff is entitled to priority as between the parties to this suit.
27. The issuance of Jantz Letters Patent No. 2,406,951 assigned to the defendant, Lovell, was fraudulently procured by the defendants when they knowingly and deliberately submitted and caused to be submitted to the Patent Office false and untrue evidence and affidavits while concealing and
Conclusions of Law
1. The Court has jurisdiction over plaintiff’s claims under Section 4915 and Section 4918.
2. This proceeding is a trial de novo in equity in which the trial court is charged with the responsibility of considering all competent evidence, new and old.
3. The burden is upon the plaintiff in this suit to prove 'by more than a mere preponderance of evidence that the Patent Office was in error in awarding priority of invention on all counts in Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672 to Gustave H. Jantz.
4. The decisions of the Patent Office in Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672 create no estoppels against the issues of the present action.
5. The decision of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals in Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672 are not res adjudicata as to the issues of the present action.
Discussions of Law
The first question requiring decision in this cause is whether plaintiff having appealed Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,-672 to the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals is estopped from bringing his Bill in Equity under Section 4915, Revised Statutes, as to Interferences Nos. 76,987 and 75,433. Defendants’ Counsel seek to simplify the problem, stating in their brief: “The issue of fact decided by the C.C.P.A. was that Jantz Exhibit O was completed and reduced to practice at least as early as April 10, 1932. The earliest date Etten contends for is May 2, 1932. Upon these facts, Etten is obviously the second inventor and not entitled to a patent,” and contend that the decision of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals
Administrative decisions under 4911, Revised Statutes by the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia prior to 1929 and of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals subsequent thereto, limited as they are to the record before the Patent Office, are binding only on the Commissioner of Patents, but are not binding as precedents in the regular Federal constitutional courts.
The doctrine of res adjudicata announced in the Blackford and Horine cases, supra, moreover has no application to concurrent, copending or companion interferences. Under such circumstances, despite prior decisions on some of such interferences, suits under 4915, Revised Statutes have been considered on the merits.
It is also pertinent to note that the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, recognizing the difference between its jurisdiction as limited solely to a review of-the Patent Office Record and the broader scope of a 4915 Revised Statute action, has refused to consider the effect of a prior decision under
The Interferences Nos. 75,433 and 76,-987 were declared on February 15, 1938, and April 25, 1939, respectively, whereas the Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672 upon which the decision of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals was predicated were not declared until November 8, 1939. It was not by reason of any action or choice of the plaintiff but because of the amendment to the Patent Laws, effective October 5, 1939, that the two later interferences traveled a separate and distinct path and were first decided. The interferences declared after October 5, 1939, were decided by the -Board of Interference Examiners on the same date that the earlier interferences here involved were decided by the Examiner of Interferences.
In only two of the interferences, Nos. 77,671 and 75,433, are the same patent applications involved.
We are not here concerned with the doctrine that where a party intentionally withholds evidence in his possession prior to and during the interference proceedings such evidence will not be considered in the equity proceedings.
In addition to the 4915 action, the granting of the Jantz Patent No. 2,406,951 dur-' ing the pendency of this action raised the clear issue of priority between interfering • patentees since the prior granted Etten Pat
The plaintiff, when the Jantz Patent issued, certainly became entitled to a bill in equity under 4918 with the incidental right to a trial de novo on the primary issue of priority and was entitled by his amendment to include this additional cause of action. As was stated by the Supreme Court in Triplett v. Lowell, 297 U.S. 638, 644, 56 S.Ct. 645, 648, 80 L.Ed. 949, “ * * * want of disclaimer of claims previously held invalid can never be set up as a bar in limine to the maintenance of a second suit upon those claims, and any others of the patent, since the patentee is entitled to invoke in that suit the independent judgment of the court upon the validity of the claims which have been held invalid.”
Etten’s claim to priority as to Claim No. 13 as against Jantz’s Claim No. 34 is the very issue involved in this action. It is difficult to see how Etten could be required to first disclaim that which he is seeking to establish and vindicate in this action. Especially is this true where, as in the instant case, plaintiff contends that such subsequent patent was fraudulently obtained. As was stated in Lorenz v. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co., 3 Cir., 122 F.2d 875, 880: “The right of a court under R.S., Sec. 4918, to declare either or both of two interfering patents invalid ‘upon any ground’ seems to us to dispose adversely of the plaintiff’s contention that the defendant is estopped from denying the validity of the Lorenz patent because of matter incident to or growing out of the interference proceeding in the Patent Office, * * *. Any possible estoppel of parties would be without relation to the court’s power to declare a patent invalid upon sufficient showing or its duty to exercise such power in an appropriate case.”
In addition to the matters herein-above referred to, plaintiff also included in his complaint an action for damages predicated upon conspiracy. In a previous ruling in this case, Judge Schoonmaker held that under Rule 18 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure plaintiff in his complaint could join an action for damages for conspiracy -to produce false and fraudulent evidence before the Patent Office and a bill in equity under Section 4915. This ruling constitutes the law of the case.
Discussion of Facts
No difficulty would be experienced in arriving at the facts in this case were it not for the opinion of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, Etten v. Jantz, 142 F. 2d 680, 31 C.C.P.A., Patents, 1177 involving Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672, upon which opinion great stress has been placed by defendant.
In the proceedings before-the Examiner of Interferences and the Board of Interference Examiners both parties took testimony by deposition only, which by stipulation was made applicable to all four interferences. As we have already indicated, this is a trial de novo, and the question therefore is whether all competent evidence, “new” and “old” offered herein carries “thorough conviction” that -the Patent Of
The opinion of the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals was predicated primarily on the depositions of Gustave H. Jantz, Bernard A. Brueggeman, Joseph Dasbach, Herman Onck, Mrs. Herman Onck, and the authenticity of Jantz Exhibit “O.”
The court in Etten v. Jantz, supra [142 F.2d 683], conceded that where the usual records are absent the oral testimony
On the contrary, Brueggeman, one of the corroborating witnesses, sometime prior to April 30, 1938, had turned over to Mr. Jantz what was then thought to be the “first Jantz Toggle Wringer” that was made. This was the statement of Herbsleb to Lord in a letter of April 30, 1938.
The other method used by the witnesses in the depositions in the Patent Office proceeding to tie in Exhibit “O” with the other occurrences was the contention that Exhibit “O” had certain parts plated and such plating was done by one A1 Yaegers, while the second or duplicate wringer was being made immediately after Exhibit “O” had been completed.
A further recital of additional details now revealing the true picture would serve
A brief comment on the depositions of the corroborating witnesses in the Patent Office proceeding may be in order. Jantz in his deposition had stated that the frame was first made with the keyhole slot; that they made another lower section of this frame with round holes, and put in that section.
In view of the general indication throughout the evidence that there was continuous experimentation, it is unbelievable that Jantz, with a patent issued in 1931, on a three sided release bar, had not tried it out on some of the earlier wringers. The advertisement incident no doubt occurred with some comment on Voss coming out with a three sided release bar but not as to the toggle release development, nor as to Exhibit “O.” Brueggeman now denies a great many things he stated in the affidavit
The depositions of Herman Onck and his wife and the date of April 10, 1932, fixed by the “Cat” date, were important factors in the Patent Office proceedings, and were tied in with the Exhibit “O” which was non existent on April 10, 1932. April 10, 1932, was a Sunday. Both Mr. and Mrs. Onck now admit they did not go to the factory on a Sunday.
In view of the fact that the three sided bar release was patented by Jantz in 1931, and that Jantz must have tried this out in some form or other during the course of experimentation, and in view of the fact that tests such as were made with Exhibit “O” were frequently made, as various changes were made on the wringers, it is quite possible that she did see a wringer tried out with a bar in front which to her gave it the appearance of Exhibit “O,” but we now know it was not the toggle release wringer Exhibit “O” which she identified in her deposition.
Onck in his deposition gave the impression that he was called on the telephone and gave such detailed information that he was asked to come to Cincinnati, did so, discussed the nature of the testimony, and then appeared to testify.
It is important to note the effort that was made to find some event that occurred in the Spring of 1932 which could be used as a tie-in date and which resulted in the unfortunate choice of April 10, 1932. “Sudie’s” one offspring was given a special “build-up.” In explaining why that particular cat was outstanding he stated, “ ‘Sudie’ was not merely a beautiful animal, but the father of the cat was ‘Bobby Cresco’; ‘Bobby Cresco’ was the father of ‘Bobby Shafto’.”
The above analysis of the false impression given by the deposition of Onck could be multiplied. It no longer appears as the disinterested unassisted statement of a distinterested person who was called on the telephone and then was called in shortly thereafter to testify.
All of the evidence before the Patent Office thus reviewed in the light of the new evidence now obtained, both in character and amount, carries thorough conviction that there was an arbitrary stepping-up of the Jantz date by one year; that when Jantz originally insisted on April 10, 1933, instead of April 10, 1932, he had some reason for stating that specific date and was correct. It now appears convincingly that there was a deliberate effort on Kauffman’s part to step-up the date to antedate Etten’s without regard to actual fact, and that Herbsleb and Lord kept unrevealed a great many factors, known to them, which they must have known would entirely alter the picture. No longer can it be said “We find nothing in the record impugning the •credibility of said corroborating witnesses. * * !|: »
Summary
That there was a deliberate effort on the part of Lord, Herbsleb, and Kauffman to step-up the Jantz date of invention
While this conduct on the part of Lord, Herbsleb, and Kauffman was in my judgment reprehensible in the extreme,. I am constrained under the circumstances of the case to deny plaintiff’s claim for damages on the ground of conspiracy. I do find as a fact, however, that such fraud was a major contributing factor in the award of priority to Jantz and the subsequent issuance of a patent on his application by the Patent Office, furthermore I also find as a fact that the chief motivating forces throughout this entire build-up procedure were Lord and Herbsleb, both Attorneys but neither one a defendant.
The action here was brought to determine the priority of the claims between the two parties. The proceedings continued over a long period of time and finally reached the point where all parties agreed that the 4915 and 4918 suits were finished business and an order was entered on December 9, 1947, confirming this understanding.
As between the parties to this suit, the Court adjudicates the question of priority in favor of the plaintiff, Nicholas L. Etten.
The plaintiff may submit a decree for approval.
The Act of August 5, 1939, became effective two months after its approval. See Footnote 35 U.S.C.A. § 52.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 152, Page 4.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 153, Page 4.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 155, Page 2, and Plaintiff's Exhibit No. 15G, Page 2.
Etten v. Jantz, 142 F.2d 680, 31 C.C. A., Patents, 1177.
Defendants’ Counsel cite Chase v. Coe, 74 App.D.C. 152, 122 F.2d 198; United States Rubber Co. v. Coe, 79 U. S.App.D.C. 305, 146 F.2d 315; McBride v. Coe, D.C.D.C., 50 F.Supp. 286. These cases do not involve concurrent or co-pending interferences but have reference to an attempt by a party defeated in one interference to have a new interference set up with substantially the same issue.
United Shoe Machinery Corp. v. Muther, 1 Cir., 288 F. 283, 285. (The court here considered an isshe of priority which had previously been decided by the Court of Appeals of District of Columbia under a 4911 appeal.) Xnternational Cellucotton Products Co. v. Coe, 66 App.D.C. 248, 85 F.2d 869; Novelty Glass Mfg. Co. v. Brookfield, 3 Cir., 170 F. 946, 955; Dwight & Lloyd Sintering Co., Inc., v. Greenawalt, 2 Cir., 27 F.2d 823, 827; Tillman & Bendel v. California Packing Corp., 9 Cir., 63 F.2d 498, 503, certiorari denied 290 U.S. 638, 54 S.Ct. 55, 78 L.Ed. 554; John Morrell & Co. v. Doyle, 7 Cir., 97 F.2d 232, 235, certiorari denied 305 U.S. 643, 59 S.Ct. 146, 83 L.Ed. 415.
Philadelphia Storage Battery Co. v. Zenith Radio Corp., 7 Cir., 117 F.2d 642; Hazeltine Corp. v. Radio Corp. of America, 67 App.D.C. 373, 92 F.2d 524; Raytheon Mfg. Co. v. General Electric Co., D.C.N.D.N.Y., 34 F.Supp. 40.
Meuer v. Sehellenger, 104 F.2d 949, 953, 26 C.C.P.A., Patents, 1430.
Section 4915, R.S., governing bills in equity to review decisions of the Patent Office, was amended concurrently with Section 4911, R.S. Prior to the amendment a condition precedent to such bill was a decision of the Board of Appeals whereas after the amendment the decision of the Board of Interference Examiners was sufficient. Lacking the requisite Board of Appeals decisions in Interferences Nos. 75,433 and 76,987 on April 23, 1942, plaintiff could not then bring bill in equity as to them even though he was forced to take action in Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 77,672, the time limit for taking appeals to the Court of Customs and Patent Appeals being 40 days. Rules of Practice, Patent Office, rule 149, 35 U.S.C.A-.Appendix.
Preston v. White, 92 F.2d 813, 25 C.C.P.A., Patents, 701; Wettlaufer v. Robins, 2 Cir., 92 F.2d 573, certiorari denied 302 U.S. 766, 58 S.Ct. 477, 82 L.Ed. 594; Wallace & Tiernan Products, Inc., v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co., D.C. W.D.Pa., 57 F.Supp. 639.
Interferences Nos. 77,671 and 75,433 involved matters contained in Jantz application Serial No. 749,977 and Etten application Serial No. 38,932.
In accord with the general rule stated in Re Einstein, 18 C.C.P.A., Patents, 885, 46 F.2d 373.
Defendant contends, “A party may not take advantage of estoppel effective against his opponent to take something from the public. In the present case the refusal of a patent to Etten will not affect the public interest and there is accordingly nothing in the Sinko, [Sinko Tool & Mfg. Co. v. Automatic Devices Corp.] 2 Cir., 136 F.2d 186, case which precludes the use of the defense of estoppel.” (Brief for Defendants, Page 34).
Mercoid Corp. v. Mid-Continent Investment Co., 320 U.S. 661, 64 S.Ct. 268, 88 L.Ed. 376; Sinko Tool & Mfg. Co. v. Automatic Devices Corp., 2 Cir., 136 F.2d 186, and see also the comment of the Supreme Court in Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co., 322 U.S. 238, 64 S.Ct. 997, 88 L.Ed. 1250, and Precision Instrument Mfg. Co. v. Automotive Maintenance Machinery Co., 324 U.S. 806, 815, 65 S.Ct. 993, 89 L.Ed. 1381.
General Talking Pictures Corp. v. American Tri-Ergon Corp., 3 Cir., 96 F.2d 800, 812; Hoover Co. v. Coe, 325 U.S. 79, 83, 65 S.Ct. 955, 89 L.Ed. 1488; Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co. v. Carborundum Co., 3 Cir., 155 F.2d 746; Daniels v. Permutit Co., D.C.Del., 44 F. Supp. 74, reversed on other grounds, 3 Cir., 137 F.2d 823.
Barrett Co. v. Koppers Co., 3 Cir., 22 F.2d 395; Schilling v. Schwitzer-Cummins Co., 79 U.S.App.D.C. 20, 142 F.2d 82.
See also Globe-Union, Inc., v. Chicago Telephone Supply Co.; 7 Cir., 103 F.2d 722, 728.
Cf. Globe-Union, Inc., v. Chicago Telephone Supply Co., supra, for a situation very similar to the present case.
Most pertinent here is the comment of the court in discussing Morgan v. Daniels, supra, and Barrett Co. v. Koppers Co., supra, in Globe-Union, Inc., v. Chicago Telephone Supply Co., supra, 103 F.2d at page 727, as follows: “The additional evidence found in the trial court’s record is not merely cumulative in nature. On the contrary, it carries with it thorough conviction, and strikes hard at the core of Sehellenger’s evidence.” See also Appert v. Brownsville Plate Glass Co., C.C.W.D.Pa., 144 F. 115; Daniels v. Permutit Co., supra.
We adopt, in toto, Judge Goodrich’s comment in Daniels v. Permutit Co., supra, 44 F.Supp. at page 79, in passing upon the precise question here posed: “The court has in mind the decision of Morgan v. Daniels, 1894, 153 U.S. 120, 14 S.Ct. 772, 38 L.Ed. 657, and there is no disposition to minimize the importance of the considered judgment of the experts responsible for the administration of the Patent Office. But Morgan v. Daniels clearly has no application to the conclusion reached here because the new testimony is overwhelmingly in support thereof and was not before the officials in the Patent Office who made the award from- which this appeal is taken.”.
Commercial Union of America v. Anglo-South American Bank, 2 Cir., 10 F.2d 937, 941, cited with approval in Price v. Greenway, 3 Cir., 167 F.2d 196.
All testimony was by deposition.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 155, Pages 21, 22, Questions and Answers 95, 98:
“Q95. How did you come to have this exhibit, — will you tell us where it came from, and how you came to get it for this case? A. All of it, or what?
“Q96. Where was it after it was made, — where was" it put? A. After it was made it was kept awhile, and then I took it out and showed it and then brought it back to the factory, and when it was decided that the Corcoran Company would quit business and sell out, I gathered up a certain number of wringers of different makes and ours, this included, because I wanted it as a sort of, you might say, keepsake, and I put all of those things in one corner of the factory floor, and put a card on it,— property of G. H. Jantz. And then, later ón, as things were being moved out of the factory by the people that had bought-those articles, I had a truck take all of these old wringers and stuff, all I had put in the corner, and sent it down to the Boss Washing Machine Company, who very kindly allowed me to put it in a corner down there in one of their factory rooms, and when this matter came Up, and I wanted something, I went down there to the Boss Washing Machine Company and picked up some things, and among them I picked up this wringer.”
Nor was it revealed at that time that Attorney Lord was actually acting on be-balf of Lovell, the then assignee thereof, which assignment was not however placed on record, nor that Herbsleb was being paid by Lovell. Throughout there was a careful plan manifest to give the impression that it was solely a battle by the elderly Jantz.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 166. In this preliminary statement Jantz fixed April 10, 1933, as the date when the machine was first successfully operated. Lovell, through Lord and Herbsleb, had succeeded in substituting an amended statement with the earlier date of completion. It was not at that time revealed that several other statements had been prepared for and by Jantz fixing intermediate stepped-up dates. This first statement was finally produced by Counsel for defendants in the present proceedings, but most reluctantly on the last day of the hearings.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27a.
“Mr. Brueggeman also turned over to Mr. Jantz the first Jantz Toggle Wringer that was made, and I have had some photographs made of it. * K: * *
“Mr. Brueggeman states that this first wringer was begun on or about the 1st of June, 1932, and completed and successfully operated on or about the 1st of December, 1932. He said this first wringer was used at that time in actually wringing clothes, and that it operated successfully.”
Herbsleb now admits that the first time he saw or had any knowledge of Exhibit “O” was in December 1939 (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 135 — Testimony of Herbsleb — Question 204 et seq.), although prior to December 1939, he spent considerable time with Jantz, Bruegge-man, and others (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 135 — Testimony of Herbsleb — Question 208, and his various reports to Lord).
Plaintiff’s Exhibits Nos. 54 and 55 (A — I) (Order and quotations for Dies).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 135 — Ilerb-sleb’s testimony, Questions 225, 226, 227.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 135 — Herbsleb’s testimony, Question 218.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 135 — Herb-sleb’s testimony, Questions 276-281 and cf. as to time element and activities thereafter. Herbsleb’s letter and memo of December 16, 1939 (Contained in Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27b).
See Herbsleb’s letter of October 17, 1940, and accompanying memo (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No.t?27e).
Brief for Gustave H. Jantz in the United States Patent Office, before the Board of Appeals, Pages 22 — 32.
Actually at that time representing the present defendant Lovell, the unrevealed assignee (e. g. See Herbsleb’s letter to Lord, dated November 5, 1940— Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 92).
f Jantz Patent Office Exhibit “K”.
Brief for Gustave H. Jantz in the United States Patent Office, before the Board of Appeals, Page SO.
Brief for Gustave H. Jantz in the United States Patent Office, before the Board of Appeals, Page 28.
The correspondence indicates that Lord originated the idea of using the June 1932, letter at one of the conferences with witnesses (e. g. Letters of December 7, 9, and 19, 1939, Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27b).
e. g. Plaintiff’s Exhibits Nos. 56, 57, 58, 95, and 96.
Receiver was appointed September 1932. Lord wrote to the Receiver on October 3, 1932 (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 96).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 95, and see also Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 135 — Herb-sleb’s testimony, Questions 165 to 182 inclusive, and the exhibits referred to therein.
Transcript of Proceedings at Erie, Pennsylvania, October 21-23, 1946. Testimony (Page 141 et seq.) of O. Wes- . ton Steward, an expert on welding, that such wringer frame was never rebuilt or changed.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 155, Pages 97 and 102, Dasbach in his deposition testified:
“Q196. The one that you kept, was' that the first one you made, which is the one that was plated, was that the first or some of the others? A. The one that was plated, it was the first. -
“Q197. How did you come to make the second one after this first one, do you remember anything about that? A. Well, the plater that worked for Corcor-an, he was located downtown, — they took, after I had the parts all tried out, — we took those parts they had to be plated, to the plater, and while they was at the platers’ I started to work on the parts for the second one. By the time they come back for assembling, I had them pretty near ready, and I could compare them with the parts that was made first; at the same time we kept the frame and I tried those parts I made out in the frame.
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“XQ247. You said when you made this original Jantz Exhibit O, that the original parts which you identify as now present on Jantz Exhibit O, were taken to the plater to be plated, as they now appear? A. Yes.
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“XQ253. Well, these particular parts were plated at some particular time, were they not? A. Well, they was plated in 1932.”
Of. Brief for Gustave H. Jantz submitted by Lord and Herbsleb before the Board of Patent Appeals, United States Patent Office (Pages 25, 26).
Transcript of Proceedings at Erie, Pennsylvania,- October 21-23, 1946. Testimony of Aloysius H. Yaegers, Page 104 et seq.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 166 — Jantz’s first preliminary statement which was sent by Herbsleb (in letter of March 16, 1938, in Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27a) to Lord, not known to the Patent Office and reluctantly produced on the last day of the present trial.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 10. In this letter to Lovell Mfg. Oo. Jantz stated:
“Not long after the first sample wringer equipped with the toggel-lever device was finished I showed it to Nineteen Hundred Corp. who gave me an order June 20, 1933. As the dies for production had not been made, nor even started on, because I wanted to find out first whether or not the Trade would buy this wringer, immediate shipment could not be made.”
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 12. In Jantz’s letter to Lord he stated:
“The sample Toggel-lever wringer which I showed Juné 20, 1933 I think," was talked about, off and on, during it’s construction about thirty days previous to June120, * *
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 17. Jantz wrote:
“The two release bars came as a suggestion from a wringer which was so constructed, and which I had obtained from a W.M.M. and brought to the factory, for the purpose of figuring to make it.
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“The four different models which were being manufactured were made according to my directions and approval, so the toggel-lever lock was constructed more or less according to my directions, and when I approved it a sample wringer was finished, which I took on a trip to show and find out what the W.M.M. would say about it, so as to decide whether or not we would be justified to go into production of the wringer.
“I believe the first W.M.M., at least one of.the first, I showed this wringer to was the Nineteen Hundred Corp. June 20, 1933 according to their order, therefore I judge that it must have been about
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 14.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 134, Page 68.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 14 — Kauff-man’s report to Lovell Mfg. Co. of interview with Jantz.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 14 — Kauff-man’s report' to Lovell Manufacturing Company of interview with Jantz.
“One other thing that was discussed at some length was that Jantz had frequent contacts with Walter Voss at the Voss plant about the inverted U type release bar. Jantz said that he got this proposition of having one of those bars on either side of the wringer from Voss, and had gone ahead and made up a model using this mechanism on the Corcoran wringer ■ * * *. He stated that one of the reasons why he didn’t think it took them long to work up the toggle job was that he already had the release bar part of it done due to his work on the Voss-Chamberlain wringer and that he therefore had only to invent a new release mechanism, that is, the toggle, in order to complete it.”
Although Jantz was actually 82 years of age (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 51) Jantz in his deposition, under the questioning of Lord, gave his ago as 65. (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 156, Jantz Deposition, Question 1.)
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 14 — Kauff-man’s report of April 15, 1938, covering the meeting on Good Friday states:
“I arg'ued with him that on the face of it this didn’t look right to us because our experience was that it took from a year to a year and a half, rather than just two or three months, to get this much accomplished. Jantz wouldn’t, budge an inch for a couple of hours under more or less a third degree from me. I understand this was the position he took when he was in Erie and he seemed to have his mind stubbornly shut on the subject.”
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 14 — Kauff-man’s report.
“He seems very kindly disposed toward the Lovell Company in every way although quite downcast that we weren’t taking him back to work and professed to bo still hopeful that Mr. A. M. Doll would some day give him another opening. I evaded this question entirely.”
Also in the report “I gathered from all appearances that Jantz is in pretty straightened financial circumstances, terribly distressed and worried and pretty wobbly in every way.”
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 26. This assignment was not revealed during the Patent Office proceeding. The depositions gave the impression that it was an unaided effort by the elderly Jantz himself.
Kauffman, Chief Engineer of the Lovell Manufacturing Company, at that time knew the Etten filing date of December 23, 1932, and was striving to get Jantz, by intermediate stages, to step up the dates. In his report (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 14) Kauffman stated: “I took him over to the Church to the noonday services to try and break up the deadlock in his thinking. It did some good for after Church, and resting his mind a bit he decided that it might have been as early as January, 1933 when he first thought of the toggle device. This did not seem like much gain, but it was so hard fought that I didn’t want to lose it, so I called up Herschlerb and took Jantz up there to make up new preliminary statements.”'
(Note) This second known preliminary sworn statement also was suppressed and was never used, but is again mentioned in Herbsleb’s letter to Lord of April 23, 1938 (In Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27a) and the same dates repeated in his letter of April 30, 1938 (In Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27a) in which letter he also states: “Mr. Br'ueggeman states that this first wring
Herbsleb’s letter to Lord, dated May 3, 1938 (In Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27a and Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 145)k.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 146.
Part of the Renewal Of Motion For Leave To File Substitute Preliminary Statement, Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 150.
E. g. (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 150) “Affiant thereupon requested the party Jantz to diligently re-investigate * * *, and that as the result of such re-investigation, the party Jantz supplied af-fiant with the dates and information contained in the substitute preliminary statement * *
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 150 (Affidavit of Herbsleb contained therein).
E. g. Lord’s letter to Herbsleb, dated September 13, 1938, (In Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27a); Lord’s letter to Herbsleb, dated January 2, 1940 (In Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27c); Herbsleb’s letter to Lord, dated February 29, 1940 (In Plaintiff’s Exhibit 27c); Kauffman’s Testimony (Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 134, Page 44, et seq.). Kauffman and Lord were in the Etten ,v. Kauffman trial on October 5, 1939.
Ellebrecht’s testimony (testimony at Erie Trial, October 21-23, 1946, at Page 79) as to this is confirmed by Herbsleb’s own notes (e. g. Memo of May 29, 1940, Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27c, in which appears “He said that * * * he had no means of fixing the dates, * * *”).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 53. Inter-of-fiee Memorandum from Ellebrecht to Brueggeman dated June 13, 1933, which stated:
“If it is possible, I would like to have prints on the new parts for the Model <T’ Wringer sample of which Mr. Jantz took out yesterday.
“All these parts should be lined up and be all set to go if Mr. Jantz does secure any orders for this type of wringer.”
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 52. Memorandum to Brueggeman and Ellebrecht, dated November 17, 1933, which stated, inter alia: “Now that we have the Model T Wringer completed, the first thing we ought to do is to get up a complete Parts List of all parts.”
Transcript of Proceedings at Erie, Pennsylvania, October 21-23, 1946, Ellebreeht’s testimony, Pages 79 and 80, in which he further states: “If he had showed me those memorandums at that time, I probably co'uld have given him some more definite information; * * * he asked for dates at that time * * »
Transcript of Proceedings at Erie, Pennsylvania, October 21-23, 1946. El-lebrecht testified that they continued experimenting until they developed the Toggle release (Page 72); that they were working under receivership (which was after September 1932) and desperately needed something different (Page 73); that he placed the order in September 1933, with Modern Tool Co. for the dies for production (Page 74); that the Model “T” wringer was actually com- • pleted about June 1933, (Page 74) when the wringer was set up on a washing machine and tested (Page 74) and that “We put it on the machine and it seemed to work satisfactorily, and it was so different, and Mr. Jantz was so anxious to get out with it that — well, it was just a rush job getting it completed and painted and certain parts plated and everything ready so Mr. Jantz could rush out with this model in order to get the business. You see, he was just as anxious to get this business as we were, because while we were in receivership and financial difficulties, he was— * * * in financial difficulties himself, * * (Pages 74, 75); that A1 Yaeger did the plating (Pages 75 and 80); that they pushed A1 Yaeger to get the plating done «* * * because we were that anxious to get Mr. Jantz on the road with that sample.” (Page 80); that there were no unnecessary delays, the breaking down of the “big press” at that time being considered quite a blow (Page 89) and confirmed Yaegers’ Testimony as to starting in business at the end of 1932 (Page 90); and that there was no question about getting money to start production (Page 94); and the further fact that the Corcoran inventory which he took at the time of the receivership did not include a wringer corresponding with Exhibit “O”.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137. Testimony of Mrs. Blanche Schneider Patz-hold (employed at Corcoran as receptionist, typist, etc.) that the Model “T” was completed in 1933 (Page 59), definitely after the receivership commenced (Pages 57, 59, and 63). She was called to a conference in 1940 at which Herbsleb, Jantz, Brueggeman and others from “the factory” were present, but she was not called as a witness in the Patent Office proceedings (Page 61).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137. Testimony of Anthony Busam (Page 25).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137. Testimony of Anthony Busam (Pages 28, 30, and 31).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137. Testimony of Anthony Busam. Busam saw Dasbaeh working on the development of this wringer, the first time, in 1933 (Page 23). Busam was at the time repairing the “big fender draw press” referred to by Ellebrecht (Page 15); described A1 Yaeger as the plater of the handle (Page 25) and that “They took it (the wringer) up and they Dueoed it and Jantz took it on the car and away he went” (Page 24).
plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 155. Jantz’s Deposition (XQ. 285).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 155. Brueggeman Deposition (Q. 126). This was also a material factor in his affidavit which accompanied the application to substitute the later preliminary statement.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137. Brueg-geman’s Testimony (Q. 429 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 150.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137, Brueggeman’s Testimony (Q. 385 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137. Brueggeman’s Testimony (Q. 545).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 155. Das-bach’s Deposition (Q. 279 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137. Joseph Dasbach’s Testimony (Q. 184, Page 107, et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 155. Dasbach’s Deposition (Q. 138, Page 90, et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137. Testimony of Joseph Dasbach (Q. 237, Page 115, et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137. Testimony of Joseph Dasbach (Q. 242, Page 115, et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Testimony of Herman Onck (Q. 135, et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Testimony of Mrs. Sara Onck (Q. 26, et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 137. Testimony of Virginia Morris (At Page 70, Q. 6, et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Testimony of Mrs. Sara Onck. (Q. 61).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Testimony of Mrs. Sara Onck. (Q. 67-73).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 155. Herman Onek’s Deposition (XQ. 188 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 155. Herman Onck’s Deposition (XQ. 200 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onek’s Testimony. (Q. 419 et seq., and Q. 152).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony (Q. 325 et seq., and Q. 52 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony (Q. 333 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony (Q. 89).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony. (Q. 341 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony (Q. 358 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 27c. Herb-sleb’s letter to Lord, dated October 10, 1940.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony (Q. 391 and Q. 25 to Q. 36 ine.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onek’s Testimony (Q. 380 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony (Q. 392).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony (Q. 52 et seq.).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony (Q. 156).
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony (Q. 215).
plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 103.
Plaintiff’s Exhibit No. 136. Herman Onck’s Testimony.
“Q214 Now then, when you bred your cat later in 1932 the second time, you had a very famous offspring named ‘Pee Wee’, didn’t you? Don’t you remember ‘Pee Wee’? A. No, that was just a little stray eat that we picked up; in fact, I don’t recollect much of that name ‘Pee Wee’.”
Etten v. Jantz, 142 F.2d 680, 683, 31 O.O.P.A., Patents, 1177.
“It is further understood that both parties hereto have concluded their respective cases as to the original and amended complaint and that no further evidence or testimony will be adduced herein in connection with the causes of action of said original and amended, complaints.”