OPINION
ALFRED T. GOODWIN, District Judge:
Three patent infringement actions have been consolidated in this case for a threshold determination of the validity of the plaintiff's patent.
On October 31, 1967, United States Letters Patent No. 3,349,645 were issued to Elmer R. Silvey for an invention called a "Saw Chain Grinding Machine."
The defendants have presented two principal challenges to the validity of the Silvey patent: (1) that Silvey...
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