Legal Opinion
Kemper-Thomas Co. v. J. P. Gordon Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 15, 1933No. 6279PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SIMONS, Circuit Judge.
Appellants are respectively licensee and owner of Rowe patent, No. 1,755,133, and appeal from a decree in an infringement suit holding the patent invalid.
Though Rowe described his invention as a cover for annular objects, it relates to advertising covers for spare automobile tires. Its only commercial embodiment is a cover having a stiff cardboard disc and a crepe paper annulus or tread-band sewed thereto. Novelty is claimed to reside in the stiff disc, in the stretchability, circumferentially, of the tread-band which permits the cover to be installed easily upon any…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Hill v. WoosterSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
- Kurtz v. Belle Hat Lining Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1922
- Railroad Supply Co. v. Elyria Iron & Steel Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1917
- Van Heusen Products, Inc. v. Earl & WilsonDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1924
- Forchheimer v. Franc, Strohmenger & Cowan, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1927
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3Cited by15 opinions
- Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. v. United States Rubber Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1935
- Goodwin v. Borg-Warner CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1946
- Evr-Klean Seat Pad Co. v. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1941
- Timken Detroit Axle Co. v. Cleveland Steel Products Corp.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1945
- Seiberling Rubber Co. v. I. T. S. Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1943
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