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ART METAL WORKS, Inc., v. ABRAHAM STRAUS, Inc.

PER CURIAM.

This suit to obtain an injunction and recover damages for infringement by the defendant of Claims 7, 12, 13 and 14 of United States Patent No. 1,673,727 to one Aronson through the sale of cigar lighters came before this court in 1932 and the patent was held valid and the claims infringed. Art Metal Works v. Abraham Straus, 2 Cir., 61 F.2d 122. Thereafter the defendant was allowed to amend its answer in order to set forth alleged inequitable conduct on the part of the complainant in misrepresenting to the trade the scope and effect of the decision which had been rendered by this court.

An amended answer was thereupon filed praying that all relief, benefits and advantages which the complainant might be entitled to in view of the decree adjudging its patent valid and infringed should be denied because of its alleged inequitable conduct. After a hearing upon the issues raised by the amended answer a decree was entered in the District Court, 4 F. Supp. 298, holding that the defendant had failed to establish any inequitable conduct of the complainant and denying the relief prayed for in such amended answer. An appeal taken from that decree to this court resulted in the reversal of the decree and in the granting to the defendant of the relief prayed for. One of the judges dissented holding that no inequitable conduct on the part of the complainant had been shown and that the decree of the District Court should be affirmed. Art Metal Works v. Abraham Straus, 2 Cir., 70 F.2d 641, at page 645. We have since sustained a petition for review and the cause now comes before us for a rehearing upon the original record. We are satisfied that an incorrect result was reached by the majority of the court on the former appeal and that the decree of the District Court should be affirmed for the reasons stated in the dissenting opinion of Judge L. Hand.

Decree affirmed upon the opinion of Judge L. Hand, 70 F.2d at

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ART METAL WORKS v. ABRAHAM STRAUS
(Dec 11, 1939)