Legal Opinion
Better Packages, Inc. v. Derby Sealers, Inc.
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided March 19, 1941No. 460PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HINCKS, District Judge.
This is an action brought charging an infringement of six patents. Of these, one patent, viz., No. 2,000,536, was withdrawn, the plaintiff consenting that judgment with costs might be entered against it with respect to this patent. Another patent in suit is reissue No. 19,756. As to this, the defendants have raised, as a defense, a charge of invalidity arising from laches in filing the application for an earlier reissue, upon which No. 19,756, now in issue, was based. Since this defense, if sustained, would dispose of the entire controversy as to No. 19,756, the court…
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