Legal Opinion
Howe v. Atwood
District Court, E.D. Michigan
Decided October 7, 1942No. 2682PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PICARD, District Judge.
The chronological history becomes important.
March 15th, 1937, plaintiff filed application for United States letters patent, No. 130977, entitled “Hinge Mechanism” and covering a practical concealed hinge for supporting a curved door to a curved automobile body. During that year he submitted his ideas to the several companies making hinges for Ford, Chrysler, General Motors and for other independent automobile concerns. He showed defendant Seth B. Atwood, manager of defendant the Atwood Vacuum Machine Company, his application including requested claims, but defendants…
2Cases cited32 opinions
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- Canda v. Michigan Malleable Iron Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1903
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3Cited by5 opinions
- Freeman v. Bee MacHine Co., IncSupreme Court of the United States · 1943
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- Howe v. General Motors Corp.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1966
- Howe v. General Motors Corp.District Court, N.D. Illinois · 1958
- Freeman v. Bee MacHine Co., IncSupreme Court of the United States · 1943