Legal Opinion
Woburn Degreasing Co. v. Spencer Kellogg & Sons, Inc.
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided August 26, 1941No. Civ. 452PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KNIGHT, District Judge.
This suit is for the infringement of U. S. Patent No. 1,892,258, issued to I. G. Farbenindustrie Aktiengesellschaft, assignee of Hanns Ufer. The only question at issue here is whether by virtue of the provisions of Section 4887 of the U. S. Revised Statutes, U.S.C.A. Title 35, § 32, the patent is invalid.
The first paragraph of that section provides that no patent shall “be declared invalid by reason of its having been first patented * * * by the inventor or his legal representatives or assigns in a foreign country, unless the application for said foreign patent was…
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