SILK PATENTS LAW SUIT
COSTLY BRITISH LITIGATION. CHARGE OF INFRINGEMENT FAILS. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Feb. 13. The silk case was dismissed with costs, the judge ordering a revocation of the three British celanese patents, thus giving the victory to Courtaulds. The hearing occupied 35 days, costing £lOOO daily. A message received on November 1 stated that a legal .battle involving millions of pounds had begun in the Law Courts and was expected to last five weeks. British Alanese Limited was suing Courtaulds Limited for the alleged infringement of patents for making cellulose-acetate silk. Eight K.C.’s were engaged. Counsel’s opening speech would take three . days and the documents in the case required a year to prepare. Courtaulds denied that they infringed the plaintiff’s patents, whose validity they attacked, asking that the patents be revoked as not novel, owing to other patents dating from 1887. The capital of the two companies totals £42,450,000.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 February 1933, Page 3
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