Greenwald Bros. v. La Vogue Petticoat Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
' Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here on appeal from an order and decree holding that letters patent No. 662,714, granted to the Elmira Skirt Company as assignee of Henry J. Eeuchtwanger, was valid and infringed, and awarding an injunction and an accounting.
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' Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here on appeal from an order and decree holding that letters patent No. 662,714, granted to the Elmira Skirt Company as assignee of Henry J. Eeuchtwanger, was valid and infringed, and awarding an injunction and an accounting. The plaintiff, Green-waid Uros., Incorporated, is a corporation created by and existing under 1lie laws of the state of Pennsylvania, with its principal office in the city of Philadelphia. The defendant, La Vogue Petticoat Company, Incorporated, is a corporation…
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Circuit Judge.
[1] The patent in suit is for a woman’s skirt or petticoat. It consists of a petticoat having a hip portion made of clastic knitted fabric such as jersey cloth, a skirt portion made of woven fabric of less elasticity than the hip portion, and a waistband of elastic, webbing. In his specification the patentee says:
“My invention relates to improvements in skirts; and the object of the Bcr.ie is to produce an, underskirt which will fit neatly over the hips without wrinkling and be secured snugly about the waist. To accomplish this object, I constructed my skirt of three…
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