Legal Opinion
Hawley Products Company v. United States Trunk Co., Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 27, 1958No. 5339PublishedCited by 39 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Circuit Judge.
Our primary concern on this appeal is with the validity as a matter of law of the holding of the court below that the single claims of five separate patents covering designs for hand luggage or similar articles are invalid for lack of invention. The patents involved are Des. 168,709 for a portable typewriter case or similar article issued to Jean O. Reinecke and Jon W. Hauser on January 27, 1953, and assigned by them to the appellant Hawley Products Company, and Des. 177,475, Des. 178,889, Des. 179,016 and Des. 179.017 for hand luggage or similar articles issued to the…
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