Parsons Non-Skid Co. v. E. J. Willis Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Parsons Non-Skid Company, Limited, the Weed Chain Tire Grip Company, and Harry D. Weed against the E. j. Willis Company. Decree for complainants, and defendant appeals. Affirmed. On appeal from a final decree in equity, bolding valid and infringed letters patent to Harry Parsons, No. 723,299, dated March. 24, 1903, for armor for pneumatic tires.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Parsons Non-Skid Company, Limited, the Weed Chain Tire Grip Company, and Harry D. Weed against the E. j. Willis Company. Decree for complainants, and defendant appeals. Affirmed. On appeal from a final decree in equity, bolding valid and infringed letters patent to Harry Parsons, No. 723,299, dated March. 24, 1903, for armor for pneumatic tires. The patent has been in general and continuous litigation for the last three years and has been sustained and infringement found in…
1Opinion of the CourtCoxe, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). If it be possible in a patent cause to reach a stage where everything that has the remotest- bearing on the issue has been said and where every question relating to the validity of the patent has been decided, this would seem to be such a case. All the important questions have been decided over and over again by the unanimous judgments of twenty-four tribunals, six of them being courts of appeal. We have been unable to find a single vital proposition advanced at this hearing which has not been decided against the defendants over and over again.
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2Cases cited1 opinion
- Weed Chain Tire Grip Co. v. Excelsior Supply Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1910
3Cited by2 opinions
- Slattery v. GodfreyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1926
- Perry v. Weed Chain Tire Grip Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1914