Legal Opinion
Berke v. Courtney Folding Box Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 6, 1937No. 74PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANTON, Circuit Judge.
Appellants sue for infringement of claims 1, 2, 7 and 8 of patent No. 1,555,-0541 for a hexagonal folding box. The patent was issued September 29, 1935' on an application filed February 7, 1935. This folding box, when collapsed, lies in a flat condition. So collapsed, a large number may be stored in a small space. It is used for delivery of women’s hats.
*285It will snap open from a closed or collapsed condition by placing the hands between the sides of the collapsed box and spreading the sides or by pressing in an inward direction from the ends of the collapsed box. Either…
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- Western Tube Co. v. RainearU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania · 1907
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