Legal Opinion
Gillman v. Stern
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 5, 1940No. 365PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
Both the plaintiffs and the defendant appeal from the judgment in this action. The plaintiffs filed the usual complaint, asking an injunction for the infringement of Patent No. 1,919,674, issued on July 25, 1933, to the Sterling Airbrush Co., as-signee of Laszlo Wenczel, for a pneumatic “puffing machine.” The defendant set up a number of defenses: first, that the patent was invalid because inoperative, and too nearly anticipated by the published art; second, that it was not infringed; third, that there had been a prior use of it • by one Haas, at least as early as 1930…
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