Patterson v. Hohlfeld
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; J. Whitaker Thompson, Judge. Suit in equity by Herman D. Hohlfeld, individually and trading as the Hohlfeld Manufacturing Company, against James B. Patterson, individually and trading as the Patterson Manufacturing Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
In this case Herman Plohlfeld, the plaintiff, charged James P. Patterson with infringing patent No. 947,546, granted said Hohlfeld January 25, 1910, for a settee-hammock. The court below, in an opinion reported at 216 Fed. 183, held the patent valid and infringed. From a decree in accord with such findings Patterson appealed to this court. By reference to such opinion, wherein is a full description of the devices of both parties, we avoid needless repetition. The claim here in controversy is the twenty-third, which reads as follows:
“A settee-hammock comprising a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hohlfeld v. PattersonDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1914