Legal Opinion
Hookless Fastener Co. v. Greenberg
District Court, S.D. California
Decided February 6, 1937No. 883-YPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
YANKWICH, District Judge.
This suit relates to Sundback patent 1,557,381, issued on October 13, 1925, on a hookless fastener, now owned by the plaintiff as assignee of the inventor. The patent was an improvement on Sundback patent 1,243,458, issued on October 16, 1917. See Lion Fastener v. Hookless Fastener Co. (C.C.A.3, 1934) 72 F.(2d) 985.
The article covered by these patents is a fastener consisting of interlocking metallic members, disposed along the edges of stringers on opposite sides of a slit, and which are made to join by means of a slide through which they pass. The slide engages the…
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