TRIUMPH HOSIERY MILLS, INC. v. ALAMANCE INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 8374.

299 F.2d 793 (1962)

TRIUMPH HOSIERY MILLS, INC., Hudson Hosiery Company, Burlington Industries, Inc., Claussner Hosiery Company, and McCallum Hosiery Company, Appellees and Cross-Appellants, v. ALAMANCE INDUSTRIES, INC., Kayser-Roth Corporation, and Kayser-Roth Hosiery Company, Inc., Appellants and Cross-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fourth Circuit.

Decided February 8, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Simon H. Rifkind, New York City (Jay H. Topkis, New York City, Welch Jordan, Greensboro, N. C., Paul B. Bell, Charlotte, N. C., Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, John G. Simon, John Lyon, New York City, Eaton, Bell, Hunt & Seltzer, and Charles B. Park, III, Charlotte, N. C., on brief), for appellants and cross-appellees.

John W. Malley, Washington, D. C. (Carl G. Love, C. Willard Hayes and Cushman, Darby & Cushman, Washington, D. C., and Thornton H. Brooks, David Rabin and McLendon, Brim, Holderness & Brooks, Greensboro, N. C., on the brief), for appellees and cross-appellants.

Before BRYAN and BELL, Circuit Judges, and CRAVEN, District Judge.


ALBERT V. BRYAN, Circuit Judge.

A patent for a surgical stocking, marketed as Supp-hose, was attacked in the District Court as fraudulently procured, lacking in inventiveness and as misused. On these grounds a declaratory judgment was sought of its invalidity. Besides denying these charges of the plaintiff non-patentees, the defendant patentees accused them of infringement, asked appropriate enforcement of the patent, and additionally charged the plaintiffs with unfair...

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