Locklin v. Switzer Brothers

348 F.2d 244 146 U.S.P.Q. 334 Harry P. LOCKLIN and Elmer J. Brant, General partners doing business under the firm name of Radiant Color Company, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SWITZER BROTHERS, INC., a corporation, Defendant-Appellee. No. 19467. United States Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. June 30, 1965. Carl Hoppe, Ernest M. Anderson, San Francisco, Cal., for appellants. Harold C. Hohbach, Flehr & Swain, San Francisco, Cal., Benjamin H. Sherman, Hill, Sherman, Meroni, Gross & Simpson, Chicago, Ill., for appellee. Before BARNES, JERTBERG and MERRILL, Circuit Judges. MERRILL, Circuit Judge: 1 This appeal is taken from an order adjudging appellants guilty of civil contempt for violation of an injunction against infringement of appellee's patent. The injunction was issued pursuant to mandate of this court following our decision holding appellee's patent valid and infringed, Locklin v. Switzer Bros., Inc., 299 F.2d 160 (9 Cir. 1961), cert. denied, 369 U.S. 861 , 82 S.Ct. 950 , 8 L.Ed.2d 18 (1962). 2 The patent there in issue, the Kazenas patent, 1 was for a resin which was a co-condensation of a melamine, a sulfonamide and an aldehyde, and which possessed characteristics of…