Squeez-A-Purse Corp. v. Stiller

JONES, District Judge.

This is an action for a declaratory judgment of invalidity concerning Reissue Patent No. 24,166, brought by virtue of Title 28 U.S.C. §§ 2201 and 1338(a).

Reissue Patent 24,166, granted upon surrender by defendant Benjamin Stiller of his original Patent No. 2,667,906, discloses a device which has been manufactured as a coin purse and which has met with considerable commercial success as a give-away advertising specialty, the name of the advertiser being imprinted on the blank surface of the coin purse. The plaintiff was given one of these purses at a convention and copied…