Legal Opinion
George H. Magrath v. Draper Corporation
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 7, 1967No. 6950PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ALDRICH, Chief Judge.
This is an action for patent infringement. The plaintiff Magrath, who owns prior patents in the textile spinning field, on June 11, 1956 applied for a patent for a top-drive spindle. In October 1959 he filed a second application in which he abandoned the first. Patent No. 2,938,676 was issued to him on May 31, 1960. The defendant Draper Corporation is continuing a textile equipment business begun long before 1877, at which date Patent No. 188,784, hereinafter the Draper patent, was obtained upon a bobbin. It would be more accurate to say that both patents were for…
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