Hoague-Sprague Corp. v. Bird & Son, Inc.

McCARTHY, District Judge.

Hoague-Sprague Corporation, doing business at Lynn, Massachusetts, and Bird & Son, Inc., doing business at Walpole, Massachusetts, are competitors in the shoe box-blank industry. Both supply shoe manufacturers or .shoe box manufacturers with flat box-blanks which are then formed into a completed shoe box. This latter operation is usually effected by means of box-forming machines which either automatically or. semi-automatically bend, glue, form and fold the boxes, or perform certain of those functions.

Hoague-Sprague Corporation alleges that it' is the owner of Letters…