Charpilloz v. Reade Mfg. Co.

SCHOONMAKER, District Judge.

This is a patent suit involving United States patent No. 1,534,289, issued April 21, 1925, to Albert Charpilloz, as assignee of Eugene Teppet, on an application filed October 16,1922.

The court below held it invalid for want of novelty, by reason of the disclosures of a prior French patent No. 487,121, to Georges Trauffaut on an application filed December 4, 1916, granted March 16, 1918, and published June 5,1918.

A comparison of the two patents clearly shows that the District Court was right in so holding. The Teppet patent is for a process and composition for…