Art Metal Works, Inc. v. Abraham & Straus, Inc.

GALSTON, District Judge.

The validity of the patent in suit, No. 1,-673,727, granted to Aronson, for a cigar lighter, was upheld as to claims 2, 7, 12, 13, and 14, in a litigation between the same parties. (D. C.) 52 F.(2d) 951, and (C. C. A.) 61 F.(2d) 122, 123.

The defendant’s structures there considered were referred to as the Evans “Automatic Lighter” and the “Roller Bearing Lighter.”

*304The suit at bar alleges that a third form made by the same manufacturer and sold by this defendant since the former adjudication, and known to the trade as the “Trig-a-lite,” is also an infringement of the…