Legal Opinion
MacBeth-evans Glass Co. v. L. E. Smith Glass Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided December 27, 1927No. 3650, 3651PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WOOLLEY, Circuit Judge.
The Macbeth-Evans patent (No. 1,342,744) is for a lamp lens with ridged and grooved surfaces surmounted by a colored vizor, at one time popular with automobile owners. After this court had held the patent valid (284 F. 193), the District Court, on interlocutory decree, found it infringed by the L. E. Smith violet ray lens of similar design and ordered an accounting. As the invention had to do with glass — an always troublesome subject in computing costs of manufacture and profits of sales — the accounting that followed touched many factors which were impossible of…
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