William A. Meier Glass Co. v. Anchor Hocking Glass Corp.

STEWART, District Judge.

In this action the plaintiff corporation, a manufacturer of glassware, seeks to recover from the defendant corporation, likewise a glass manufacturer, damages for the alleged unauthorized use of the plaintiff’s original “loop” design.' The plaintiff had neither a patent nor a copyright on the “loop” design so that its right to recovery must rest solely upon its common law property right as the originator of the “loop” design. The plaintiff alleges that the defendant acquired knowledge of the “loop” design in October, 1948, when the plaintiff, seeking to interest the…