Legal Opinion
Paine & Williams Co. v. Trump Products Co.
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided January 5, 1935No. 4912PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
WEST, District Judge.
Suit for infringement of United States patent 1,580,075 on a rubber-faced mat or covering for automobile running boards, granted on April 6, 1926, on the application of E. E. Paine, filed August 13, 1923. The principal defense is invalidity. When this application was filed, running boards were generally covered with linoleum fastened with cement or glue. In the specification Paine states his objects as the securing of an improved corrugated tread surface and improved means for securing the mat to the running board. In his evidence he specified six disadvantages inhering…
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