Marvel Buckle Co. v. Alma Mfg. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maryland
In Equity. Suit by the Marvel Buckle Company and M. Barabasz against the Alma Manufacturing Company, H. Kerngood, president, I. Blum, vice president, M. Hecht, of J., secretary, and S. B. Sonne-born, treasurer.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
The individual complainant is the inventor to whom reissued letters patent 12,855 were granted September 22, 1908. He still owns them. The Marvel Buckle Company is a corporation. It holds an exclusive license under such patent. The bill says that the defendants infringe its second, fifth, and sixth claims. A number of defenses were set up. The' original patent, 877,035, dated January 21, 1908, and its reissue in suit, are each for an improvement in single piece sheet metal buckles.
The respondents have put in evidence 53 prior patents. Eorty-nine of these relate to single…
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