Legal Opinion
United Kingdom Optical Co. v. American Optical Co.
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided January 11, 1933No. 3446PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
This is a suit for the infringement of letters patent 1,729,654, issued to Watson and Culver on October 1, 1929, which was assigned to the United Kingdom Optical Company, of which the Univis Corporation is the sole licensee. The complainants contend that this patent covers a method of making optical lenses in which the two segments of the button, so-called, are left with a gray finish before they are fused together. The evidence did not convince me that the result of leaving the edges of both segments of the button gray accomplished any useful result; the many sales of…
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