Legal Opinion
Mather v. Ford Motor Co.
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided April 16, 1941No. 14892PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
O’BRIEN, District Judge.
The plaintiff herein brought an action at law to recover $250,000 damages allegedly caused by defendant’s infringement of plaintiff’s United States Letters Patent No. 1,-320,775, dated November 4, 1919, which expired November 4, 1936. The suit was instituted on the 4th day of August, 1937, and defendant’s answer filed October 1, 1937. In its answer the defendant pleaded the legal defenses of invalidity and infringement, as well as the equitable defenses of laches, acquiescence and estoppel.
During the early part of 1939 the defendant moved this court for and obtained an…
2Cases cited9 opinions
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- Window Glass Mach. Co. v. Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1922
- Ford v. HuffCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1924
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