L. B. SMITH, INC. v. HUGHES

Civ. A. No. 25412.

190 F.Supp. 787 (1961)

L. B. SMITH, INC., Plaintiff, v. Luther J. HUGHES, T/D/B/A Hughes Trailers, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Pennsylvania.

January 31, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Willard Hayes (of Cushman, Darby & Cushman), Washington, D. C., for plaintiff. George T. Mobille (of Cushman, Darby & Cushman) and Robert V. Smith (of Smith, Ristig & Smith), Washington, D. C., of counsel.

James C. McConnon, Philadelphia, Pa., and Henry N. Paul, Jr. (of Paul & Paul), Philadelphia Pa., for defendant.


Plaintiff sues for declaratory judgment of patent invalidity and noninfringement of its power-operated, removable gooseneck without liability for infringement of the Meadows patent owned by defendant. By its counterclaim, defendant seeks a judicial determination its Meadows patent covers all power-operated removable goosenecks which "lift themselves by their own bootstraps".

Plaintiff says its employees designed a different mechanism, working on a different principle...

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