Legal Opinion
United Shoe Machinery Corp. v. Brooklyn Wood Heel Corp.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided May 11, 1934No. 6511PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
GALS TON, District Judge.
This is a patent infringement suit in which infringement is alleged of letters patent granted to Willard N. Sawyer, May 31,1932, No. 1,860,789, on an application filed January 12,1927.
The patent relates to a wood heel grooving machine and is concerned with the making of wood heels of the Louis type, as distinguished from the Cuban heel. The latter is relatively simple. The former is more difficult to manufacture, is more highly contoured, and is concave transversely.
On the front the heel has what was referred to at the trial as a “shank lip,” or at times just a “lip,”…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Alexander Milburn Co. v. Davis-Bournonville Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1926
- Peters v. HansonSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Houser v. StarrCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1913
- Smyth Mfg. Co. v. SheridanCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1906
- Doig v. Morgan Mach. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1903
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