Legal Opinion
Larson v. General Motors Corporation
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided March 17, 1943No. 159PublishedCited by 51 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*452L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiffs appeal from two judgments: One, in favor of the defendant upon a counterclaim to their first cause of action, which declared invalid Patent No. 1,983,983, issued on December 11, 1934, to the plaintiffs for an improvement to motor cars, and enjoined them from threatening the defendant or its customers with infringement; the other, dismissing their second cause of action for damages for the defendant’s appropriation of an “idea,” imparted to it by the plaintiffs in confidence. The complaint, filed on May 5, 1939, alleged as a first cause of action that the…
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