Legal Opinion
Tsc Industries, Inc., a Corporation v. International Harvester Company, a Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided December 5, 1968No. 16571_1PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, Senior Circuit Judge.
This suit was initiated as a declaratory judgment action stemming from defendant’s charge that plaintiff was in-infringing Walker United States Patent No. 2,729,930 by reconstructing and selling spent doffers.
A mechanized cotton picking machine is large in size and is of considerable complexity. It contains, among other parts, a combination of rotating, elongated picking spindles which remove and collect the cotton from the cotton plants as the cotton picker moves along a row of plants, and disc-like rotating doffers which cooperate with the spindles to remove the…
2Cases cited6 opinions
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- Mumm v. Jacob E. Decker & SonsSupreme Court of the United States · 1937
- Wilson v. SimpsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1850
- Cotton-Tie Co. v. SimmonsSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Ekstrom-Carlson & Co. v. Onsrud MacHine Works, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1962
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