Legal Opinion
Hann v. Venetian Blind Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided April 15, 1940No. 9186PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEPHENS, Circuit Judge.
Appeal from the decree of the District Court dismissing plaintiff’s complaint for infringement, and declaring certain claims of plaintiff’s Patent No. 1,829,718, granted October 27, 1931, for a “Venetian Blind Bracket”, invalid in law.
One of the grounds upon which the court declared said claims to be invalid, was that Edwin Anderson [the claimed inventor] was not the original or first inventor or discoverer of any material or substantial part thereof. In the view that we take of the case, that said conclusion of the trial court should be affirmed, it is necessary to…
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