COSGRAVE, District Judge.
The patent in suit, No. 1,930,987, granted to John T. Simmons, is for method and apparatus for testing the productivity of formations encountered in drilling oil wells and other deep wells. The method consists briefly in sealing off the formation or stratum to be tested from the strata above it by means of a packer, thus separating the two zones and relieving this stratum to be tested from the hydrostatic pressure of the rotary mud above...
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