Legal Opinion

Tripp Giant Leveler Co. v. Rogers

District Court, D. Massachusetts

Decided March 14, 1894No. Nos. 3,077, 3,078, 3,079, 3,080, and 3081PublishedCited by 5 opinions

These were five suits for infringement of a patent. They were brought by the Tripp Giant Leveler Company against the following defendants, respectively, viz. Clarence A. Itogers, Pérley Weeks, John M. Hoyes, the Portsmouth Shoe Company, and Maurice V. Bresnahan and others.

1Opinion of the Court

COLT, Circuit Judge.

By a decision of the circuit court of appeals for this circuit (Herrick v. Leveller Co., 8 C. C. A. 475, 60 Fed. 80), affirming the decision of the circuit court (52 Fed. 147), the Cuteheon patent No. 884,893, dated June 19, 1888, was held to be valid. This patent has been assigned to the complainant, who now brings the present suits against various defendants, charging infringement. In these suits additional evidence of the prior state of the. art: has been introduced, and the validity of the patent is again contested.

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2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Herrick v. Tripp Giant Leveller Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1893
  2. Cutcheon v. HerrickU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1892

3Cited by5 opinions

  1. United States v. Harold E. StaplesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1992
  2. Bresnahan v. Tripp Giant Leveller Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1900
  3. Tripp Giant Leveller Co. v. BresnahanU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1895
  4. Tripp Giant Leveller Co. v. BresnahanU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1899
  5. United States v. Harold E. StaplesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1992

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