ALLEN v. STANDARD CRANKSHAFT & HYDRAULIC COMPANY

No. 8935.

323 F.2d 29 (1963)

Charles J. ALLEN, Jr., and American Crankshaft Company, Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. STANDARD CRANKSHAFT & HYDRAULIC COMPANY, Inc., Parts Warehouse, Inc. (now Standard Crankshaft Company, Inc.), and Homer H. Brackett, Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided September 23, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Channing L. Richards, Charlotte, N. C., for appellants and cross-appellees.

Joseph Y. Houghton, Washington, D. C. (Paul L. Muilenburg and William J. Waggoner, Charlotte, N. C., on brief) for appellees and cross-appellants.

Before HAYNSWORTH and J. SPENCER BELL, Circuit Judges, and BARKSDALE, District Judge.


HAYNSWORTH, Circuit Judge.

The District Court held invalid, on several counts, and uninfringed plaintiffs' patent No. 2,567,685 on a "Method of Reconditioning Crankshafts and the Like," but it found that a service mark used by the defendants was confusingly similar to a mark previously used by the plaintiffs, and concluded that continued use by the defendants of their mark should be enjoined. We agree with the District Court on both branches of the case.

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