Legal Opinion
A. L. Smith Iron Co. v. Dickson
District Court, D. Connecticut
Decided September 4, 1943No. 948PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
SMITH, District Judge.
This is an action for a declaratory judgment on the validity of a patent and for injunction and damages for unfair competition. Diversity of citizenship exists. The defendant is the sole licensee under a United States patent, No. 1,864,232, held by a British concern for the manufacture of hatch covers for ships, consisting of one or more planks assembled in a certain manner with the ends strengthened and protected by metal bands or shoes. Hatch covers are used, in large numbers in all merchant ships, up to approximately 1,000 being required for each ship constructed…
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- American Lecithin Co. v. Warfield Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1939
- Philad Co. v. Lechler Laboratories, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1939
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