Legal Opinion

Oriental Tissue Co. v. Louis De Jonge & Co.

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Decided June 19, 1916No. 288PublishedCited by 2 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit by the Oriental Tissue Company against Louis De Jonge & Co. From a decree dismissing the bill, but holding complainant’s patent valid, both parties appeal.

1Opinion of the Court

WARD, Circuit Judge.

Upon appeal from an interlocutory decree in a former suit between these same parties, 218 Fed. 170, 134 C. C. A. 50, we held that a thin metallic sheet composed entirely of soluble cotton and a coloring matter was new, and that the patent for the article was valid even if there was some resin incidentally contained in the elements mentioned.

In this case the defendants call our attention much more extensively to the prior art and especially to foreign patents, in view of which they contend that the patent should now be held invalid and if this be not so, that as a much…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Oriental Tissue Co. v. Louis Dejonge & Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1914

3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Linde Air Products Co. v. Morse Dry Dock & Repair Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1917
  2. Oriental Tissue Co. v. DejongeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1918

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