Legal Opinion
Joseph H. Spaulding, Dba Whiteway Manufacturing Company v. Guardian Light Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided June 29, 1959No. 12474_1PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, Chief Judge.
This is a suit for the alleged infringement of Design Patent No. D-168,974 granted to Joseph H. Spaulding on March 3, 1953, on a design for a “Fluorescent Lighting Fixture.” The application was filed October 30, 1952. Defendant filed a counterclaim for a declaratory judgment of invalidity and non-inf ringement.
The patent in suit discloses a lighting fixture in the form of a housing for fluorescent lighting equipment. The patent contains four drawings. Fig. 1 shows the inclined sides, the bottom and one end of the fixture; Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view; Fig. 3 is a top plan…
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