Legal Opinion
Shreckhise v. Ritchie
Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Decided April 9, 1947No. 5552PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SOPER, Circuit Judge.
This suit involves the validity and the infringement of United States Patent No. 2,341,392 issued to George W. Shreckhise on February 8, 1944 on an application filed April 10, 1940, for apparatus for coating typewriter ribbons. The District Judge found for the defendants on both questions and dismissed the bill of complaint. We consider only the question of validity since we are in accord with the Judge’s opinion on this point, Shreckhise v. Ritchie, 67 F.Supp. 926.
The decision below is based on the finding that Shreckhise was not the sole inventor of the device as he…
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