HOWE v. ATWOOD

No. 2682.

47 F.Supp. 979 (1942)

HOWE v. ATWOOD et al.

District Court, E. D. Michigan, S. D.

October 7, 1942.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alex J. Groesbeck and Lawrence Rothenberg, both of Detroit, Mich. (Clarence B. Zewadski, of Detroit, Mich., of counsel), for plaintiff.

Beaumont, Smith & Harris, and Albert E. Meder and Richard W. Larwin, all of Detroit, Mich. (Andrew F. Wintercorn, of Rockford, Ill., of counsel), for defendants.


PICARD, District Judge.

The chronological history becomes important.

March 15th, 1937, plaintiff filed application for United States letters patent, No. 130977, entitled "Hinge Mechanism" and covering a practical concealed hinge for supporting a curved door to a curved automobile body. During that year he submitted his ideas to the several companies making hinges for Ford, Chrysler, General Motors and for other independent automobile concerns. He showed defendant...

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