Hadco Products, Inc. v. Frank Dini Co., Inc

OPINION OF THE COURT

KALODNER, Circuit Judge.

The District Court denied the plaintiff’s motion to adjudge the defendant and its president, Rudolph F. Dini, in contempt of its Judgment enjoining defendant from infringing plaintiff’s design patent for a lighting fixture, and this appeal followed.

The essence of plaintiff’s contention is that the District Court was “clearly erroneous” in denying its motion, and that there is no evidentiary support for the narrow interpretation which the court gave to the design patent, and to the terms of its Judgment. The defendant contends to the contrary.

It…