RUBBER TIRE CO. v. GOODYEAR CO.

No. 37.

232 U.S. 413 (1914)

RUBBER TIRE WHEEL COMPANY v. GOODYEAR TIRE AND RUBBER COMPANY.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided February 24, 1914.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederick P. Fish, with whom Mr. J.L. Stackpole was on the brief, for petitioners.

Mr. H.A. Toulmin for respondent.


MR. JUSTICE HUGHES delivered the opinion of the court.

The petitioners are the owners of the Grant patent (No. 554,675) issued February 18, 1896, for an improvement in rubber-tired wheels. In a suit for infringement brought by the petitioners against the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company (the respondent) it was held by the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit that the patent was void for want of novelty. Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. v. Rubber...

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