Frances P. Norman and Frances P. Norman D/B/A the Norman Company, a Partnership Consisting of Frances P. Norman and Norman Norman v. Leonard Lawrence

HAND, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment of Judge Bruchhausen (180 F.Supp. 186), holding valid and infringed Claim 1 of Patent No. 2,763,999, issued to one of the plaintiffs, Frances P. Norman, for “earring pads.” The disclosure was for two kinds of “pads” — the “clip-on” and the “screw-on — but we need concern ourselves only with the “clip-on” type. It was designed to provide a “clip” that would grasp an earring to the lobe of the ear and hold it firmly in place to resist entanglements in the hair, but without too much pressure on the lobe for the comfort of the wearer. There…