Meccano, Ltd. v. Wagner
District Court, S.D. Ohio
In Equity. Suit by the Meccano, Eimited, against Francis A. Wagner, trading as the American Mechanical Toy Company, and the Strobel & Wilken Company, who counterclaimed. Decree for complainant.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLISTER, District Judge.
Action for unfair competition; infringement of copyright, and infringement of patent. Counterclaim for unfair competition.
In 1899 Frank Hornby, of Liverpool, England, conceived the idea of a mechanical toy composed of thin narrow strips of metal of different lengths perforated with holes equidistant from each other, angle bars, wheels, nuts, and bolts, so designed and constructed that by their use toy models can be built, in appearance resembling mechanical structures, and, in some instances, actually illustrating principles in mechanics applied and embodied in…
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