Legal Opinion
Helen Russell Pierce v. American Communications Company, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 30, 1960No. 5529PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOODBURY, Chief Judge.
This is another chapter in protracted litigation in this and other circuits involving a group of patents for electrical systems and apparatus for use primarily in the art of radio communication issued to the late George Washington Pierce. 1 This time we have before us four appeals by the plaintiff below. One pair of appeals is from a single final judgment entered in two cases consolidated in the District Court for the purpose of hearing and trial which, with costs to the defendants, (1) granted their motions for summary judgment and denied like motions in each case by…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- American Communications Co., Inc. v. PierceCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1954
- George Washington Pierce v. Hewlett-Packard CompanyCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1955
- Pierce v. Allen B. Du Mont Laboratories, Inc.District Court, D. Delaware · 1959
- Pierce v. American Communications Co.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1958
3Cited by4 opinions
- Sanders v. SandersCourt of Civil Appeals of Alabama · 1977
- Barr Rubber Products Company v. Sun Rubber CompanyDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1967
- Helen Russell Pierce, Executric of the Last Will and Testament of George Washington Pierce, Deceased v. Aeronautical Communications Equipment, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1962
- Pierce v. Aeronautical Communications Equipment, Inc.District Court, S.D. Florida · 1961