American Optical Co. v. Universal Optical Corp.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Apiieals from the District Court of the United States for ihe District of Rhode Island; Arthur D. Brown, Judge. Suit by the American Optical Company and others against the Universal Optical Corporation and by Stevens & Co., Incorporated, against Clarence D. Holmes and others. Decree for defendant in each case, and complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
BINGHAM, Circuit Judge.
These cases were tried together. In No. 1457 the plaintiff charges the defendants with having infringed letters patent No. 1,177,367, which it owns, and which was issued to 3?. A. Stevens March 28, 1916, on application filed January 12, 1916, for improvements in eyeglasses and spectacles. The defenses are noninvention and noninfringement.
[1] There are three claims in issue. They all relate to mountings for spectacles and eyeglasses in which a metallic frame, consisting of eye wires, a bridge, end pieces, and bows, is combined with nonmetallic eye rims of shell or…
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