Legal Opinion
Frederick Stearns & Co. v. Grove's Laboratories, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 3, 1937No. 10743PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for infringement of United States Letters patent No. 1,890,860 for a “therapeutic agent,” applied for by Allen L. Omohundro on March 22, 1930, and issued to Frederick Stearns & Co., his assignee, on December 13, 1932. The court below concluded that the subject matter of the patent did not involve invention and was not novel, that the applicant was not the first inventor, and that the alleged invention was known to and published by others prior to its conception by the applicant. From a decree dismissing the complaint,, this appeal is taken.
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- Tropic-Aire, Inc. v. Sears, Roebuck & Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1930
- Western Willite Co. v. Trinidad Asphalt Mfg. Co.Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1926
- Berlin Mills Co. v. Procter & Gamble Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1920
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- Span-Deck, Inc., a Tennessee Corporation v. Fab-Con, Incorporated, a Minnesota Corporation and Rauenhorst Corporation, Aminnesota CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1982
- McGraw Edison Company v. Central Transformer Corp.District Court, E.D. Arkansas · 1961
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