Legal Opinion
Altvater v. Freeman
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 24, 1943No. 696PublishedCited by 224 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Douglas
This suit, lodged in the federal District Court by reason of diversity of citizenship, was brought by respondents for specific performance of a license agreement under reissue patent No. 20,202 issued to Ereeman in 1936 for a cutout machine for shoe uppers, it being alleged that the reissue patent was substituted under the agreement for the original patent — No. l^ljOSS. The bill alleged that contrary to the provisions of the license agreement petitioners were manufacturing and selling certain devices which infringed the reissue patent and that they had not confined themselves to the…
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