Brick v. A. I. Namm & Sons, Inc.

INCH, District Judge.

This is a suit brought upon letters patent No. 1,553,993 (United States), dated September 15, 1925, to William R. Delaney; application filed May 11,1923. The patent covers a millinery box, and was duly assigned to the plaintiffs. The technical defendant is a large department store. The real defendant is a competitor of plaintiffs in the millinery box trade.

Delaney’s- patent states that his invention “is to cause a mechanical co-operative functioning between a completely encircling flange provided on a lid and the open top body portion of a box of this construction (cheap…