Legal Opinion
Johnson Automatic Scale Co. v. Ginn
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided January 29, 1926No. 1804PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MORTON, District Judge.
This is a suit for infringement of letters patent to Dear-born, No. 1,158,186, dated October 26, 1915 (application May 29, 1914), and to Johnson, No. 1,270,416, dated June 25, 1918 (application January 30, 1915).
At the time when the first of the patents in suit (the Dearborn patent) was applied for there were successful machines for wrapping in wax paper loaves of bread, and small rectangular objects like caramels, packages of chewing gum, etc.; but there was no machine, so far as now appears, for wrapping cartons of ordinary commercial size. While to a large extent the…
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