Court Opinion

ID: 9456001
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:39:33.641978+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:49.164442
License: Public Domain

JOHN R. BROWN, Chief Judge
(concurring in part and dissenting in part):
I concur fully in the opinion and decision that there is no infringement. I respectfully dissent as to validity. I see no invention on any standard. The problem was a light pole which could be “collapsed” for maintenance. This called for a hinged base and the electrical circuitry to be readily available when the pole was lowered from the vertical. All Sterner did was take advantage of technological advances in the lighter materials for base and pole and, more important, in electronic circuitry which enabled all to be enclosed within the radius of the pole itself at the bottom end. Not much, if any, is now left but what there is, is too much.