Legal Opinion
Union Match Co. v. Diamond Match Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided April 17, 1908No. 2,658PublishedCited by 17 opinions
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Minnesota.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
This was a suit to restrain the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 538,535, granted in 1895 to complainant, the Diamond Match Company, as assignee of the inventors,' for new and useful improvements in box-filling machines. The specification shows that the device of the patent was to be used in connection with a match-making machine. It is there said:
“The object of our invention is to enable matches to be successfully placed in boxes by mechanical means directly from the match-making machine.”
The manufactured matches, as they fall from the machine which dips,…
2Cases cited15 opinions
- Seymour v. OsborneSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- Miller v. Eagle Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1894
- O'Reilly v. MorseSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
- Westinghouse v. Boyden Power Brake Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1898
- National Hollow Brake-Beam Co. v. Interchangeable Brake-Beam Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1901
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3Cited by17 opinions
- Electric Protection Co. v. American Bank Protection Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1910
- Eastern Dynamite Co. v. Keystone Powder Mfg. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Middle Pennsylvania · 1908
- Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. v. Kilbourne & Clark Mfg. Co.District Court, W.D. Washington · 1916
- Whitney v. New York Scaffolding Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1917
- Diamond Match Co. v. Sun Match Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
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