Hayes Spray Gun Company, a Corporation, Stanley A. Hayes and E. A. Patterson v. E. C. Brown Company, a Corporation, E. C. Brown Company, a Corporation v. Hayes Spray Gun Company, a Corporation, Stanley A. Hayes and E. A. Patterson

291 F.2d 319 HAYES SPRAY GUN COMPANY, a Corporation, Stanley A. Hayes and E. A. Patterson, Appellants, v. E. C. BROWN COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellee. E. C. BROWN COMPANY, a Corporation, Appellant, v. HAYES SPRAY GUN COMPANY, a Corporation, Stanley A. Hayes and E. A. Patterson, Appellees. No. 16813. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. May 25, 1961. Rehearing Denied July 7, 1961. Christie, Parker & Hale, Ashley Stewart Orr, and Harold L. Jackson, Pasadena, Cal., for appellants Hayes Spray Gun Company. Francis P. Keiper, Syracuse, N. Y. (Lyon & Lyon, Charles G. Lyon, Los Angeles, Cal., Roland Maxwell, Pasadena, Cal., and Helen F. Keiper, Syracuse, N. Y., of counsel), for appellee and appellant E. C. Brown Co. Before BARNES, HAMLIN and JERTBERG, Circuit Judges. BARNES, Circuit Judge. 1 The district court had jurisdiction over these patent and other claims arising under the United States patent laws (35 U.S.C.) ( 28 U.S.C. § 1338 .) This court's jurisdiction over the appeals is conferred by 28 U.S.C. § 1291 . 2 The controversy concerns a spraygun used for applying insecticides, fertilizers and other chemicals to plants. Spraying devices such as the flit…