Triumph Hosiery Mills, Inc. v. Alamance Industries, Inc.

HAYES, District Judge.

The plaintiffs instituted this suit for a declaratory judgment praying for a decree that Patent No. 2,841,971 to Joseph J. Bird, et al. on a compressive stocking be declared invalid and non-infringed, and that the plaintiffs have a decree against the defendants from interfering with the plaintiffs in the manufacture of their stockings or their customers who sell them. The defendants in answering alleged the validity of the patent, accused each of the plaintiffs with infringing the patent, asked for an accounting, and in their counterclaim the defendants set up another…