Legal Opinion
Allen Filter Co. v. Star Metal Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided April 2, 1930No. 4174PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORRIS, District Judge.
In the court below, both claims of patent No. 1,470,094 to Mull, assignor to the Allen Filter Company, the plaintiff, were held invalid and the bill of complaint alleging infringement by the defendants, Morris Stein and Abe S. Levin, copartners trading as the Star Metal Manufacturing Company, was dismissed. The plaintiff appealed.
The patent is for a water cooler of the coil type, in which the water from the source of supply flows to its outlet through a coil in an ice container or box. To prevent interference with the placing of the ice cake in the cooler and to obtain…
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