Legal Opinion
Coltman v. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 15, 1939No. 6753PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EVANS, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff’s suit is predicated upon a patent, No. 1,718,778, covering soap flakes. All of the claims were found by the District Court to be valid and infringed by defendant’s two products sold under the names of Supersuds and Palmolive Beads.
The dates of filing applications and issuance of the patents are important, as is the entire histdry of the proceedings before the patent office.
The original application covers “Process of and Means for Flaking Soap.” It was filed August 15, 1921, and was granted December 20, 1927 (No. 1,653,390). While the original patent was…
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3Cited by21 opinions
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