Harries v. Air King Products Co., Inc

L. HAND, Chief Judge.

Judge Galston’s full and considered opinion is reported 1 and states the positions of both sides, the evidence, and the law. We need add nothing to it by way of prelude to our own discussion; and we shall address ourselves at once to the questions in dispute, presupposing an acquaintance with it. The only issues which we deem it important to consider are validity and infringement, because, although the defendant has also raised the question of laches, and of the general inequity of the plaintiffs’ failure to give earlier notice of their intention to sue, it is too clear…