Gillette Safety Razor Co. v. Essex Razor Blade Corp.

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

This case concerns the art of Gillette safety razors. We are so familiar with the use for years of such razors that it is hard for us to conceive there could now be any marked improvement therein. The original Gillette patent was before this court in Clark Blade & Razor Co. v. Gillette Safety Razor Co., 194 F. 421. In a later case, American Safety Razor Corporation v. Frings Bros. Co., 62 F.(2d) 416, 417, this court noted “that the safety razor art is a thoroughly occupied field. Originally novel and radical in character and for years the subject of patentable…