Legal Opinion
Tropic-Aire, Inc. v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided September 5, 1930No. 8849PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KENYON, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota dismissing for want of equity appellant’s bill of complaint based on alleged infringement of reissue letters patent No. 17,131, which had been issued to appellant as assignee of Orville S. Caesar, the inventor, November 13, 1928, for an improvement in heating apparatus for automobile vehicles (original patent No. 1,668,490 was issued May 1, 1928).
The trial court held that claims 6 and 7, being the ones alleged to be infringed by appellee’s device, were so limited by the…
2Cases cited42 opinions
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- Potts v. CreagerSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Railway Co. v. SaylesSupreme Court of the United States · 1878
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3Cited by33 opinions
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- Trico Products Corporation v. Delman Corporation Delman Corporation v. Trico Products CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1950
- Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co. v. CoeCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1938
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