Legal Opinion

Vanity Fair Mills, Inc. v. Olga Company (Inc.)

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided February 4, 1975No. 124, Docket 74-1559PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

ROBERT P. ANDERSON, Circuit Judge:

This case concerns patents numbered 3,142,300 (“300”) and 3,142,301 (“301”), for women’s panty briefs, initially issued to Mrs. Olga Erteszek on July 28, 1964 and subsequently assigned by her to appellee, Olga Company. Since 1963 Olga Company has marketed a brief embodying the patents. The appellant, Vanity Fair, Inc., (Vanity Fair) is also a manufacturer of women’s undergarments and lingerie and between 1967 and 1969, marketed a brief, Style 40-28, which Olga Company alleges infringed the patents in question.

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2Cases cited14 opinions

Graham v. John Deere Co. of Kansas CitySupreme Court of the United States · 1966
United States v. AdamsSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
Cuno Engineering Corp. v. Automatic Devices Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
Formal Fashions, Inc., and Paul Kellner v. Braiman Bows, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1966
Gilbert Shaw and Polymers, Inc. v. E. B. & A. C. Whiting CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969

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3Cited by1 opinion

J. G. Furniture Co. v. Litton Business Systems, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1977