Legal Opinion
Automatic Appliance Co. v. McNiece Motor Co.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 9, 1927No. 7623PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOOTH, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for alleged infringement by appellee (hereafter called defendant) of patent No. 1,-345,870, granted to Robert Nash and George Henry Alexander on July 6, 1920. In the trial court decree went for defendant, on the ground of noninfringement. Validity of plaintiff’s patent was not adjudicated.
The complaint is in conventional form, alleging ownership of the patent, infringement thereof by the defendant, and praying for an injunction and an accounting. The answer denies infringement, and sets up invalidity of the patent by reason of certain prior patents alleged…
2Cases cited15 opinions
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- Weber Electric Co. v. E. H. Freeman Electric Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1921
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