REEKE-NASH MOTORS CO.

v.

SWAN CARBURETOR CO.

Citator

Cited By

• Swan Carburetor Co. v. Chrysler Corp., 130 F.2d 391 (6th Cir. 1942)
  …etween the header and the branches, came within the Swan patent. A similar result was reached when the patents were before this court in two actions for royalties, General Motors Corp. v. Swan Carburetor Co., 6 Cir., 88 F. 2d 876, certiorari denied 302 U.S. 691, 58 S.Ct. 49, 82 L.Ed. 534. In a patent infringement case consolidated therewith [Reeke-Nash Motors Co. v. Swan Carburetor Co., 88 F. 2d at page 885], claims 13 and 20 of patent 1,636,721 and claims 5 and 7 of patent 1,536,044 were held valid and in…
• Standard Coil Prods. Co., Inc. v. Gen. Elec. Co., 306 F.2d 319 (2d Cir. 1962)
  …which at the time he imperfectly comprehended. It is not necessary that an inventor understand all scientific principles involved in the device or process patented. General Motors Corp. v. Swan Carburetor Co., 6 Cir., 88 F. 2d 876, certiorari denied 302 U.S. 691, 58 S.Ct. 49, 82 L.Ed. 534; Union Oil Co. of California v. American Bitumuls Co., 9 Cir., 109 F. 2d 140; 2 Walker on Patents § 253 (Deller Ed. 1937). Failure to disclose or even grasp the full theoretical basis of an invention will not invalidate…
• Japhe v. A-T-O Inc., 481 F.2d 366 (5th Cir. 1973)
  …rather that Japhe failed to anticipate that a collateral matter would render the provision of the contract operative. An analogous situation was presented in General Motors Corp. v. Swan Carburetor Co., 6 Cir. 1937, 88 F. 2d 876, 883, cert. denied, 302 U.S. 691, 58 S.Ct. 49, 82 L.Ed. 534, in which the court said: “where the parties deliberately contracted with reference to a future fact, uncertain in detail and realized somewhat differently from what the parties expected [and] . . . [t]he writing accuratel…