Legal Opinion
Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. v. Sales Affiliates, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided September 5, 1957No. Nos. 341-344, Dockets 24524-24527PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LUMBARD, Circuit Judge.
The question for decision is this: Where one federal court after protracted and expensive litigation, has already decided that a patent is invalid and has enjoined the defendant-patentee from suing thereon, may that court issue a supplemental injunction enjoining that patentee from suing customers of the plaintiffs under the cloak of another corporate shell in another circuit of our federal judicial system for infringement of a later-issued patent, which is invalid for substantially the same reasons as the earlier patent? We think the answer should be in the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Local Loan Co. v. HuntSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
- Gunter v. Atlantic Coast Line RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1906
- Kessler v. EldredSupreme Court of the United States · 1907
- Dietzsch v. HuidekoperSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Dugas v. American Surety Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1937
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3Cited by6 opinions
- Sperry Rand Corporation v. Bernard J. RothleinCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1961
- Kentucky Fried Chicken Corporation, a Delaware Corporation v. Diversified Packaging Corporation v. Heublein, Inc., Movant-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1977
- Redac Project 6426, Inc. v. Allstate Insurance CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- Helene Curtis Industries, Inc. v. Sales Affiliates, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1958
- Helene Curtis Industries, Inc., Helene Curtis Sales, Inc. And C. v. Layden, Doing Business as Southwestern Beauty Products Company v. Sales Affiliates, Inc., the Gillette Company, Skillern & Sons, Inc., and Walgreen Drug Company of Texas v. Sales Affiliates, Inc., Sales Affiliates, Inc., the Procter & Gamble Company, Involuntary v. C. v. Layden, Doing Business as Southwestern Beauty Products Company, Sales Affiliates, Inc., the Procter & Gamble Company, Involuntary v. Skillern & Sons, Inc., Walgreen Drug Company of Texas, and the Gillette CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1957
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