Legal Opinion
Axel C. Wickman and Wickman, Ltd. v. Vinco Corporation and Joseph J. Osplack
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided March 22, 1961No. 14168PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MARTIN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal evolves from a dispute concerning the invention of and patent proceedings relating to a certain type of gear-grinding machine.
Appellant Axel Wickman, while in England in 1938, conceived an invention which he then thought to be new. The invention related to the subject matter of grinding gears in a specific manner with a grinding wheel characterized by having its periphery formed with a helix. On October 20, 1938, Wickman filed in the Patent Office of Great Britain a provisional application designated as No. 30,323/38. As part of the same application, he filed…
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