NATIONAL LOCK WASHER CO. v. GEORGE K. GARRETT CO.

No. 1100.

21 F.Supp. 488 (1937)

NATIONAL LOCK WASHER CO. v. GEORGE K. GARRETT CO., Inc.

District Court, D. Delaware.

November 26, 1937.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William G. Mahaffy and Herbert L. Cohen, both of Wilmington, Del., and George F. Scull (of Gifford, Scull & Burgess), all of New York City, for plaintiff.

Ayres J. Stockly (of Hastings, Stockly & Duffy), all of Wilmington, Del., and Henry N. Paul, Jr., and John H. Austin, (of Paul & Paul), all of Philadelphia, Pa., for defendant.


NIELDS, District Judge.

This is a suit for infringement of Loutrel patent No. 1,655,018, granted January 3, 1928, for a "Compression Spring Washer."

The defenses are:

(1) Invalidity (a) because the patent does not evidence the exercise of inventive faculty; (b) because the claims are anticipated by the prior art.

(2) Noninfringement.

Plaintiff, owner of the Loutrel patent, has a plant in Newark, N. J. Defendant, the manufacturer of...

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