TAYLOR-REED CORPORATION v. MENNEN FOOD PRODUCTS, INC.

No. 14143.

324 F.2d 108 (1963)

The TAYLOR-REED CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. MENNEN FOOD PRODUCTS, INC., American Home Products Corporation, and Frederick C. Mennen, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 8, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carlton Hill, Benjamin H. Sherman, Anthony R. Chiara, Chicago, Ill., for defendants-appellants.

Charles A. Bane, Chicago, Ill., Roland Obenchain, South Bend, Ind., for appellee. John C. Blair, F. Eugene Davis IV, Stamford, Conn., of counsel.

Before HASTINGS, Chief Judge, and KNOCH and SWYGERT, Circuit Judges.


HASTINGS, Chief Judge.

This is a suit for infringement of plaintiff's United States Patent No. 2,673,805, issued on March 30, 1954, on application filed March 2, 1953, to Tip Top Products Company as assignee of Benjamin W. Coleman. The district court held the single claim of this patent to be valid and infringed.

The district court further held that defendants were not guilty of unfair competition and that there had been no willful appropriation of plaintiff...

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