COLGATE-PALMOLIVE-PEET CO. v. LEVER BROS. CO.

No. 5774.

90 F.2d 178 (1937)

COLGATE-PALMOLIVE-PEET CO. et al. v. LEVER BROS. CO.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 21, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marston Allen, Erastus S. Allen, and Frank F. Dinsmore, all of Cincinnati, Ohio, Louis Quarles, of Milwaukee, Wis., Mason Trowbridge, of Jersey City, N. J., and Arthur C. Denison and Newton D. Baker, both of Cleveland, Ohio, for appellants.

C. B. Tinkham, of Hammond, Ind., Leroy C. Shonts, John B. Macauley, and Frank Parker Davis, all of Chicago, Ill., Ramsay Hoguet, of New York City, Floyd S. Davis, of Cambridge, Mass., and Geo. I. Haight, of Chicago, Ill., for appellee.

Before EVANS and SPARKS, Circuit Judges, and LINDLEY, District Judge.


EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Appellants and appellee are competitors engaged in making and selling soap. Their activities cover the entire industry. The competition and the competitive methods which led to this litigation concern themselves with laundry soap. The size of this branch of the industry as conducted by the three parties to the litigation is tremendous.

Appellants assert that they jointly own the patent covering the product of the inventive mind which...

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