Braddock Glass Co. v. Macbeth
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. This was a suit by George A. Macbeth and George A. Macbeth & Co. against the Braddock Glass Company, Limited, and W. R. McCloy, for infringement of the Dietrich design patent for lamp chimney tops, No. 14,373, granted October 30, 1893, to George A. Macbeth, assignee of Henry Dietrich.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. This was a suit by George A. Macbeth and George A. Macbeth & Co. against the Braddock Glass Company, Limited, and W. R. McCloy, for infringement of the Dietrich design patent for lamp chimney tops, No. 14,373, granted October 30, 1893, to George A. Macbeth, assignee of Henry Dietrich. A preliminary injunction was granted (54 Fed. 173), and on final hearing a decree was rendered for complainants by the circuit court, with the following opinion (Buffington, District Judge; Acheson, Circuit Judge,…
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
By the decree appealed from it was adjudged that the letters patent No. 14,378, granted to George A. Macbeth, assignee of Henry Dietrich, on October 30,1883, for designs for lamp chimneys, is valid, and that it had been infringed by the defendants below; and thereupon a perpetual injunction and the payment by the defendants to the complainants of $250, being the minimum damages provided for in the act of congress of February 4, 1887, together with the costs of the suit, were ordered.
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