Legal Opinion
A. S. Kratz Co. v. Double Envelope Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided May 1, 1923No. 2059PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODS, Circuit Judge.
The A. S. Kratz Company sues for infringement of patent No. 1,181,970, for a church contribution envelope. Contribution envelopes for church purposes are in very general use. Stated in short, Kratz’s claim of invention is this:
The ordinary church contribution envelopes were printed for specific dates of the Sundays in the year, thus, “January 1, 1922,” “January 8, 1922,” and so on for the entire year. As the Sundays for one year do not fall on the same day of the month for the succeeding year, the envelopes as printed were good only for the year for which they were…
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