JIFFY ENTERPRISES, INC. v. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO.

Nos. 13804 and 13805.

306 F.2d 240 (1962)

JIFFY ENTERPRISES, INC., Appellant, v. SEARS, ROEBUCK & CO., and E. H. Tate Co. E. H. TATE CO. v. JIFFY ENTERPRISES, INC., Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals Third Circuit.

Decided July 9, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur H. Seidel, Philadelphia, Pa. (Marvin Comisky, Philadelphia, Pa., of counsel, on the brief), for Jiffy Enterprises.

Cedric W. Porter, Boston, Mass. (Henry N. Paul, Jr., Robert B. Frailey and Paul & Paul, Philadelphia, Pa., on the brief), for appellee.

Before McLAUGHLIN, KALODNER and GANEY, Circuit Judges.


McLAUGHLIN, Circuit Judge.

The first of these two patent cases (consolidated for trial) is a suit by Tate to declare Jiffy's Margulis patent 2,809,001 invalid. The second is by Jiffy for infringement of the patent. The trial court, finding the patent invalid, granted a declaratory judgment to Tate and dismissed the Jiffy complaint. Jiffy appeals both judgments.1

Our concern is with the validity of the product patent involved. It...

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