Legal Opinion
Perma-Fit Shoulder Pad Co., Inc. v. Best Made Shoulder Pad Corp., Shoped Co., Inc., Chic Pad Corp., Samuel Weber, Harold Weber, Murray Weber
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided January 20, 1955No. 23016_1PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HARLAN, Circuit Judge.
The District Court has held valid and infringed by the defendants-appellants U. S. Patent No. 2,478,340 for an “Apparel Pad and Method of Making the Same.” The patent was issued on August 9, 1949 to Joseph A. Talalay, and thereafter he assigned it to the plaintiff-appellee.
The contending parties are rivals in the business of manufacturing shoulder pads used in male and female garments. Both the patented and allegedly infringing shoulder pads comprise: (1) a con-cavo-convex or scoop-shaped filler composed of open-mesh wool fibers coated and bonded together with…
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