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E. CLEMENS HORST CO. v. OESTE

No. 6670.

114 F.Supp. 408 (1953)

E. CLEMENS HORST CO. v. OESTE.

United States District Court N. D. California, N. D.

March 4, 1953.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Townsend, Townsend & Hoppe, San Francisco, Cal., for plaintiff.

White & White, San Francisco, Cal. for defendant.

LEMMON, District Judge.

"A Piece of String" is the title of one of DeMaupassant's best-known short stories. This Court is now being called upon to determine whether the plaintiff's patent of a coir string for cleaning hop picking fingers involves fiction of another sort; namely, an untenable legal fiction.

1. The Complaint

On June 6, 1952, the plaintiff filed its complaint, alleging infringement of United States Letters Patent No. 2,114,712...

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