Legal Opinion
Van Meter v. Irving Air Chute Co.
District Court, W.D. New York
Decided June 8, 1928PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
In these two cases, tried as one, the evidence taken is admittedly applicable to both. The action against the Irving Air Chute Company is in equity and avers infringement of United States letters patent No. 1,192,479, issued July 25, 1916, to Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr., for parachute apparatus or “aviatory life buoy,” while the action against the United States is at law, wherein trial by jury has been waived, to recover damages for unlicensed use and manufacture by the United States, or for the United States by the defendant Irving Air Chute Company, of the invention…
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