Heinke v. Chipman Knitting Mills

THOMPSON, District Judge.

The plaintiff sues for infringement of his patent, No. 1,399,299, granted December 6, 1921, upon an application filed May 17, 1921, for a new method of knitting stockings having a seamless leg and heel and a full-fashioned foot. The defendant is and has been for! many years engaged in. the manufacture of stockings at Easton, Pa.

The answer denies infringement, sets up prior invention by patent No. 924,605, granted June 8, 1909, to Albert Gee, and public use and sale under the Gee patent for more than two years prior to Heinke’s application, 'and that the defendant has…