Legal Opinion
West Point Manufacturing Company v. Detroit Stamping Company
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided April 26, 1955No. 12310_1PublishedCited by 64 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McALLISTER, Circuit Judge.
Upon the expiration of appellee’s patent for a toggle clamp, a device for clamping parts in industrial production, appellant copied a number of appellee’s clamps and prepared to advertise, manufacture, and sell them to the industry with its own trade-mark affixed in place of appellee’s trade-mark.
To forestall such action, appellee filed a complaint, claiming that, although the patent had expired, appellant, under the Lanham Trade-Mark Act of 1946, 15 U.S. C.A. § 1051 et seq., was guilty of unfair competition in copying and manufacturing such clamps, and asked that…
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