Legal Opinion
Mead Johnson & Co. v. Hillman's, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided May 21, 1943No. 8192PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KERNER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff charged defendant with infringement of Patent No. 1,990,329, now owned by the plaintiff, issued on February 5, 1935, to Lambert D. Johnson and others. Infringement of Claims 5 and 61 of the patent was charged by reason of defendant’s sale of Gerber’s Cereal Food and Gerber’s Strained Oatmeal, manufactured by Gerber Products Company of Fremont, Michigan.
The principal defense was invalidity and non-infringement. The District Court found infringement, but concluded that the claims were invalid because of Braunbeck United States Patent No. 1,011,730, related…
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3Cited by8 opinions
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