Paper Converting Machine Co. v. Magna-Graphics Corp‪.‬

These appeals are from the judgment in a consolidated Civil Action No. 82-825-N, Jackson Jordan, Inc. v. Plasser American Corporation, before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Norfolk Division, reported at 219 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 922 (1983). We reverse the holding that Patent No. 3,494,297 is invalid under 35 U.S.C. § 102(b). This holding depended in part on giving a collateral estoppel effect, with which we disagree, to the decision in Plasser American Corporation v. Canron, Inc., 546 F. Supp. 589, 217 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 823 (D.S.C. 1980) on the scope of the claims. Accordingly, we vacate the judgment of invalidity and remand for further proceedings. In all other respects the judgment is affirmed.