Legal Opinion
Seymour v. Ford Motor Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided November 5, 1930No. 5559PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HICKENLOOPER, Circuit Judge.
Appellant brought his action in the District Court for infringement of patent No. 1,277,652, for a gearing, issued September 3, 1918, to Seymour, upon division of a prior application filed September 9, 1913. The court below dismissed the bill of complaint “for want of equity,” after rendering an opinion to the effect that the patent in suit involved only variation in degree from the prior art, that the disclosures had not advanced the art, and that the defendant’s construction more closely approximated the prior art than that disclosed by the plaintiff. The opinion…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Atlantic Works v. BradySupreme Court of the United States · 1883
- Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. v. Wagner Electric & Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1912
- Lehnbeuter v. HolthausSupreme Court of the United States · 1882
- Du Bois v. KirkSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Gandy v. Main Belting Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1892
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