Legal Opinion
Skoog v. McCray Refrigerator Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided March 23, 1954No. 10963PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
DUFFY, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for infringement of Claims 1 and 2 of R. E. Skoog, et al. U. S. Patent No. 2,477,393. 1 Plaintiffs also claim that they disclosed a trade secret which defendant obtained through a confidential relationship. The district court found the patent to be invalid and not infringed, and that there was no violation of a confidential disclosure.
Plaintiffs are brothers who operated a small retail grocery and meat market in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Their groceries were sold on a self-service basis but the meat department was operated on a service basis. Desiring to…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. v. Supermarket Equipment Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1951
- Lincoln Engineering Co. v. Stewart-Warner Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Smith v. Dravo Corp.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1953
- Hunt v. Armour & Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1951
- Booth v. Stutz Motor Car Co. of America, Inc.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1932
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3Cited by16 opinions
- National Rejectors, Inc. v. TriemanSupreme Court of Missouri · 1966
- Koehring Company v. National Automatic Tool Co.District Court, S.D. Indiana · 1966
- Deere & Company v. International Harvester CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1981
- Eaton Corp. v. Appliance Valves Corp.District Court, N.D. Indiana · 1981
- McGraw Company v. Central Transformer Corporation, Central Transformier Corporation v. McGraw CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit · 1962
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