Sunbeam Lighting Company v. Pacific Associated Lighting Incorporated and Mitchell Bobrick, Also Known as "Mitch" Bobrick

MADDEN, Judge:

The United States District Court for the Northern District of California, Southern Division, granted summary judgments in favor of the defendants, dismissing both of the two causes of action of the plaintiff. In this opinion the parties are referred to in their respective postures in the district court, i. e., the appellant is called plaintiff and the appellees, defendants.

The plaintiff sued the defendants for unfair competition and for infringement of the plaintiff’s design patent, the complaint stating two separate causes of action. The first cause of action, for unfair…