Samuel J. Miller & Co. v. A. Schreter & Sons Co.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
Samuel J. Miller & Co. v. A. Schreter & Sons Co., 374 F.2d 510 (4th Cir. 1967)
153 U.S.P.Q. (BNA) 90

Samuel J. Miller & Co. v. A. Schreter & Sons Co.

Opinion of the Court

PER CURIAM:

Patent No. 2,813,273, issued to Abraham Schreter on November 19, 1957, for a button-down necktie was declared invalid by the District Court at the suit of Samuel J. Miller & Co., a manufacturer of them. The decision went upon the finding that the invention claimed in the letters patent was described in printed publications and was in public use, and on sale in the United States by the defendant-appellant A. Schreter & Sons Company, Incorporated, and others, more than a year before the application for the patent. 35 U.S.C. 102(b). The present holders or owners of the patent are also defendants and appellants.

We affirm the declaration of the District Court upon the basis of its accompanying opinion, Samuel J. Miller & Co. v. A. Schreter & Sons Co., 246 F. Supp. 737 (D.Md. 1965).

Affirmed.

Reference

Full Case Name
SAMUEL J. MILLER & CO., a partnership composed of Samuel J. Miller, Henry J. Miller and Nathaniel Miller, for itself and, as to count three, also on behalf of United States of America v. A. SCHRETER & SONS COMPANY, Incorporated, Sidney H. Schreter, Leon M. Schreter, A. Harvey Schreter and Sidney H. Schreter and Daniel C. Joseph as Executors of the Estate of Abraham Schreter
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