Legal Opinion
Hoague-Sprague Corporation v. Frank C. Meyer Co.
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided March 22, 1929No. 3605PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAMPBELL, District Judge.
This is a suit for infringement of a copyright owned by the plaintiff. Plaintiff is a manufacturer of shoe boxes.
Formerly the bulk of shoe boxes were plain white boxes; others were covered with colored paper, with a label on one end. There came a demand for shoe boxes entirely covered with a wrap of special design covering the whole box. This is termed a whole wrap.
Plaintiff satisfied the demands by purchasing wrappers from other box makers or lithographers, but about 1927, when the demand for the decorative whole wraps began to increase, plaintiff commenced creating…
2Cases cited24 opinions
- Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1903
- Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. SaronySupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- United States v. State Bank of NCSupreme Court of the United States · 1832
- Edward's Lessee v. DarbySupreme Court of the United States · 1827
- Great Northern Railway Co. v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1908
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3Cited by7 opinions
- Alfred Bell & Co. Ltd. v. Catalda Fine Arts, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1951
- Ansehl v. Puritan Pharmaceutical Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1932
- Thomas Wilson & Company, Inc. v. Irving J. Dorfman Company, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1970
- Basevi v. Edward O'Toole Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1939
- Griesedieck Western Brewery Co. v. Peoples Brewing Co.District Court, D. Minnesota · 1944
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