PERFECT CIRCLE CORP. v. HASTINGS MANUFACTURING CO.

Civ. A. 2011.

162 F.Supp. 777 (1958)

PERFECT CIRCLE CORPORATION, Plaintiff, v. HASTINGS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court W. D. Michigan, S. D.

June 17, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis, Lindsey, Hibben & Noyes and Harry W. Lindsey, Jr., George N. Hibben, Chicago, Ill., and Frank E. Liverance, Jr., Grand Rapids, Mich., for plaintiff.

Earl & Webb and Otis A. Earl and Austin A. Webb, Kalamazoo, Mich., for defendant.


STARR, Chief Judge.

In its complaint in this case plaintiff alleged that it manufactured and sold piston rings known as Chrome Oil Stopper rings, which defendant claimed infringed its patent No. 2,565,042 issued August 21, 1951, on application filed May 17, 1948. Plaintiff denied that its rings infringed defendant's patent and alleged that all claims of the patent were invalid. It asked for a declaratory judgment (28 U.S.C.A. §§ 2201, 2202) determining defendant...

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