Legal Opinion

Globe Knitting Works v. Segal

Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Decided December 27, 1917No. 2291PublishedCited by 10 opinions

Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; Oliver 13. Dickinson, Judge. Suit in equity by the Globe Knitting Works against Keeva Segal and Benjamin Segal, doing business as the Quaker Manufacturing Company. Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals.

1Opinion of the Court

WOOEEEY, Circuit Judge.

The bill charges infringement of Letters Patent No. 1,035,819, issued August 13, 1912, to A. E. Clarke, assignor of the plaintiff, for improvements in knit underwear. The de-fences are invalidity and non-infringement. The District Court, while indicating its opinion that the garment of the patent lacked patentable novelty, dismissed the bill on the ground that infringement of the claim, if valid, could not be found under the narrow construction which it gave it. 239 Fed. 322. The plaintiff took this appeal.

[1] The patent is for improvements in underwear of the type…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Florsheim v. SchillingSupreme Court of the United States · 1890
  2. George Frost Co. v. CohnU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1901
  3. Neill v. KinneyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1917
  4. Globe Knitting Works v. SegalDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1917

3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Low v. McMasterCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1920
  2. Newburgh Moire Company, Inc. v. Superior Moire Company, IncCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1956
  3. Buckeye Incubator Co. v. CooleyCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1927
  4. Berry v. RobertsonDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1930
  5. Hills v. Hamilton Watch Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1918

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