Legal Opinion
Hilditch v. American Bumper Corporation
District Court, E.D. New York
Decided September 4, 1926No. 2657PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CAMPBELL, District Judge.
This is an action in equity on United States patent No. 1,198,246, for buffer for motor vehicles, issued to George Albert Lyon, assignor to Lyon Non-Skid Company, and comes before this court on a motion by the plaintiff for a preliminary injunction.
The buffers described in the patent are “spring” or resilient bumpers having an open loop. The claims involved on the motion are Nos. 9,14, and 18.
The patent was sustained in 1916 by Judge Mantón, in the District Court, in the suit of Lyon Non-Skid Co. v. Edward V. Hartford, 247 F. 524, affirmed without opinion, in which…
2Cases cited17 opinions
- Hall Signal Co. v. General Ry. Signal Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1907
- Campbell v. Northwest Eckington Improvement Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1913
- Lyon v. BohCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1926
- Barber-Colman Co. v. Magnano Corp.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1924
- General Electric Co. v. P. R. Mallory & Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1923
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3Cited by9 opinions
- Beirne v. Fitch Sanitarium, Inc.District Court, S.D. New York · 1958
- Bennett v. Sinclair Nav. Co.District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1940
- Zenith Laboratories, Inc. v. Eli Lilly and Co.District Court, D. New Jersey · 1978
- Ayers v. Oceanic & Oriental Nav. Co.Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1936
- Hilditch v. Bethlehem Bumper Co.District Court, E.D. New York · 1927
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