Cridlebaugh v. Rudolph

FORMAN, District Judge.

This suit involves Patent No. 19,562, reissued May 7, 1935, to Jacob Jones, and Letters Patent No. 2,079,107, issued May 4, 1937, to John Clayton Cridlebaugh for an alleged improvement upon the Jones invention, which are now owned by the plaintiff Cridlebaugh, and defendant’s patent No. 2,181,070, issued November 21, 1939.

Each of the inventions covered by the respective patents relates to a mask or blinders adapted to be secured upon the beak of a fowl, for the purpose of preventing it picking the feathers or flesh of another. It is well known in the poultry business…