Legal Opinion
Western Auto Supply Co. v. American-National Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided September 16, 1940No. 8176PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ARANT, Circuit Judge.
Appellant is accused of selling wagons that infringe appellee’s United States Design Letters Patent No. 97,206 for a coaster wagon, granted October 15, 1935, upon the application of John G. Ride-out. The District Court adjudged the patent valid and infringed and ordered an accounting. This appeal challenges the correctness of these holdings.
No claim is made that appellee’s patent extends to any part of a wagon other than the body, which is rounded in front and gradually narrowed rearwardly, and has a flange outwardly projecting from the top edge of the box wall, so…
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