Legal Opinion

Sayre v. McGill Ticket Punch Co.

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided October 3, 1912No. 30,472PublishedCited by 1 opinion

In Equity. Suit by Eouis A. Sayre and Howard A. Sayre, individually and as partners under the firm name of L. A. Sayre & Son, against the McGill Ticket Punch Company. On demurrer to bill.

1Opinion of the Court

KOIiLSAAT, Circuit Judge.

Demurrer to amended bill. The bill, as amended, charges infringement of certain letters patent for ticket punch, also that defendant—

“is guilty of unfair competition in trade, in that it has not only copied the element (elements) of the patented device, hut the very form of it, taking advantage of the trade which has been worked up by the complainants for it, and palming off its own product upon the public as that of your orators, and is continuing and threatens to continue said unlawful acts, * * * has copied and is now copying, and threatens to continue to copy, the…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Singer Manufacturing Co. v. June Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1896
  2. C. F. Simmons Medicine Co. v. Mansfield Drug Co.Tennessee Supreme Court · 1893
  3. Hobart v. YoungSupreme Court of Vermont · 1891
  4. Harper v. HolmanU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · 1897

3Cited by1 opinion

  1. Tweedie v. Royal Co.District Court, E.D. Missouri · 1920

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