United States Can Corp. v. American Can Co.

HULBERT, District Judge.

Plaintiff applies for a preliminary injunction in this action commenced Nov. 17, 1939, for infringement and threatened infringement of U. S. Letters Patent No. 2,-176,898 (granted to Louis Fried Feb. 24, 1939, and assigned to plaintiff April 10, 1939), “for hermetically sealing sheet metal cans or analogous receptacles having a definite and through cut on the closure, and opening same without the use of a can opener or other tool, that is to say, digitally, and for the wrongful, wilful and intentional threat to manufacture, use and sell, in violation of the aforesaid…