Legal Opinion
De Long Hook & Eye Co. v. American Pin Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided October 17, 1912PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Equity. Suit by the De Long Hook & Eye Company against, the American Pin Company. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, District Judge.
In October, 1889, letters patent of the United States, No. 411,857, were issued to Charles F. and Frank E. De Long, for an invention involving an improvement in hooks or fastenings for garments. In the same month the brothers De Long *67entered1 into a copartnership with a Mr. Richardson, under the name of Penn Button Works, for the purpose of manufacturing and selling hooks and eyes under the above referred to tetters patent, and these lettei's patent were duly assigned to the copartnership, which became the owners thereof. In May, 1891, the firm name of the copart-nership…
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