Legal Opinion
Johnson v. Lit Bros., Inc.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided December 14, 1921PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Equity. Suit by Horace G. Johnson and Henry S. Cooper against Bit Bros., Inc.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
[1] The ultimate finding is made that letters patent respectively Nos. 973,200, 1,281,019, and 1,298,346, issued to Horace G. Johnson October 18, 1910, October 8, 1918, and March 25, 1919, for improvements in union garments, are invalid for want of invention.
[2] The kind of subject-matter to which these patents relate and the nature of the claims gave no promise other than of a big D and *280little d, and a prime and double prime type of argument, and the reading of the claims upon a variety of garments. There was small expectation that such an argument .could be made…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Globe Knitting Works v. SegalCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1917
- Johnson v. LambertCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1916
3Cited by3 opinions
- Coltman v. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1939
- Harvey Hubbell, Inc. v. Fitzgerald Mfg. Co.District Court, D. Connecticut · 1922
- Johnson v. Lit Bros.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1922