Legal Opinion
Lancaster Colony Corporation v. Aldon Accessories, Ltd., and Royal London, Ltd.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided December 2, 1974No. 255, Docket 74-1734PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OAKES, Circuit Judge:
This appeal is from a judgment, after cross motions for summary judgment, for the holder of a design patent (No. 217,942) of a cigar holding ashtray. The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, Charles H. Tenney, Judge, held for the plaintiff, Lancaster Colony Corporation (Lancaster), in its suit claiming that defendants, Aldon Accessories, Ltd. (Aldon), and Royal London, Ltd. (Royal), were selling ashtrays with a design infringing the plaintiff’s design patent. As the court below found, there is no doubt of infringement in that appellants’…
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