Court Opinion

ID: 9451334
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 17:14:14.319514+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:32:40.223558
License: Public Domain

ALDRICH, Chief Judge
(concurring).
Because it is sometimes difficult to sweep aside assertions of deprivation of rights, even though untimely, and even though the speaker manifestly protests too much, I will add a comment about the least unsound of the claims here asserted. I would like to observe, that quite apart from the grounds given in this court’s original opinion, I find the district court’s holding of noninfringement supported by other of its findings which, in turn, are adequately supported by the record. In particular, I refer to findings number 40 and 43, the latter of which reads, “The accused devices were the result of applying Glass’s teachings * * i. e., the teachings of a prior art patent. I have searched plaintiff’s arguments for an explanation of how the accused devices deviated from Glass’s disclosure and have found nothing that could justify overturning the district court’s finding that they did not, certainly nothing which indicates that what deviations there might have been, followed from plaintiff’s disclosures rather than other prior art. “If the accused machine is substantially identical with the prior art there can be no infringement.” Galion Iron Works & Mfg. Co. v. Beckwith Mach. Co., 3 Cir., 1939, 105 F.2d 941, 942.