TIN DECORATING CO. v. METAL PACKAGE CORPORATION


29 F.2d 1006 (1928)

TIN DECORATING CO. OF BALTIMORE v. METAL PACKAGE CORPORATION et al.

District Court, S. D. New York.

November 7, 1928.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Granville Meyers, of New York City (Charles Neave, Charles S. Jones, and Thomas J. Johnston, all of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Henry C. Townsend, of New York City (Wm. Houston Kenyon, Theodore S. Kenyon, and Frederick B. Townsend, all of New York City, of counsel), for defendants.


THACHER, District Judge.

The circumstances under which the alleged invention described in patent No. 14,393 was conceived and developed are of controlling importance. Prior to his employment with the defendant company, in December, 1910, the patentee George was employed by the American Stopper Company, in whose plant he had seen the hand process of inserting pintles in tin packages. Believing that an automatic machine might be devised to do this work, he constructed...

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