Legal Opinion
Tropic-Aire, Inc. v. Cullen-Thompson Motor Co.
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided November 6, 1939No. 1905PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree of the United States District Court of Colorado, dismissing for want of equity appellant’s bill of complaint, charging an alleged infringement of all claims except Claim 8 of Reissue Letters Patent No. 17,131, dated November 13, 1928, to Tropic-Aire, Inc., as assignee of Orville S. Caesar. The patent in suit is a reissue of Patent No. 1,-668,490, granted May 1, 1928. The court held Reissue Patent No. 17,131 invalid on the ground of non-invention, and the further ground that the claims of the patent were so limited by the prior art that…
2Cases cited20 opinions
- McClain v. OrtmayerSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
- Potts v. CreagerSupreme Court of the United States · 1895
- Hailes v. Van WormerSupreme Court of the United States · 1874
- Pennsylvania Railroad v. Locomotive Engine Safety Truck Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1884
- Roberts v. RyerSupreme Court of the United States · 1875
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3Cited by15 opinions
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- Mott Corporation and C. W. Mott Research Engineers v. Sunflower Industries, Inc. And Owen Murrell CrumpCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1963
- King-Seeley Thermos Co. v. Refrigerated Dispensers, Inc., Diamond Ice MacHine Company, and the Diamond CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1965
- M. B. Skinner Company, a Division of Textron, Inc., a Rhode Island Corporation v. Continental Industries, Inc., an Oklahoma CorporationCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1965
- Garry W. Todd v. Sears, Roebuck and CompanyCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1954
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