Legal Opinion

EJ Brooks Co. v. Stoffel Seals Corporation

District Court, S.D. New York

Decided March 31, 1958PublishedCited by 10 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

DAWSON, District Judge.

This action is for patent infringement. It relates to small metal tags or seals which are attached to poultry for grading, identification, inspection or trademark purposes. The patents involved are:

Ashton Patent No. 2,611,198, owned by defendant; Stelzer Patent No. 2,611,199, owned by defendant; Moberg Patent No. 2,686,379, owned by plaintiff.

The issues essentially are:(1) Are these patents valid, and(2) Have these patents been infringed ?

Plaintiff presents still another issue:(3) Does a justiciable controversy exist as to defendant’s Stelzer Patent No. 2,611,199?

The…

2Cases cited27 opinions

  1. Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1951
  2. Lincoln Engineering Co. v. Stewart-Warner Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
  3. Sinclair & Carroll Co. v. Interchemical Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1945
  4. United Carbon Co. v. Binney & Smith Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1942
  5. Electric Storage Battery Co. v. ShimadzuSupreme Court of the United States · 1939

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3Cited by10 opinions

  1. Terrell J. Reese and Reese Products, Inc. v. Elkhart Welding and Boiler Works, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1971
  2. Axel Harald Holstensson v. V-M CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1963
  3. E. J. Brooks Company v. Stoffel Seals CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1959
  4. Forest Laboratories, Inc. v. Formulations, Inc.District Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1969
  5. Prudent Publishing Co. v. Myron Manufacturing Corp.District Court, S.D. New York · 1989

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