[DOWNLOAD] "Universal Oil Products Co. v. Root Refining Co." by Supreme Court of the United States # eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Universal Oil Products Co. v. Root Refining Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of the United States
- Release Date : January 10, 1946
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 68 KB
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Petitioner, Universal Oil Products Company, is a patent-holding and licensing company. In 1929 and 1931, it brought suits for infringement against the Winkler-Koch Engineering Co. and the Root Refining Company, respectively. The suits were consolidated, the validity of the patents sustained, and decrees for their infringement entered. 6 F.Supp. 763. The Circuit Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in an opinion by Judge J. Warren Davis, affirmed the decrees, 78 F.2d 991, and this Court, in October, 1935, denied certiorari. Root Refining Co. v. Universal Oil Products Co., 296 U.S. 626. Both before and after the decision in the Root case, Universal started similar infringement suits against other oil companies. Universal invoked the Root decisions as res judicata against some of these companies. It maintained that, although these companies had not been parties of record in the Root suit, they were members of a "patent club," to which Root belonged and which had been formed