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Grinnell Washing MacHine Co. v. E. E. Johnson Co.

247 U.S. 426, 38 S. Ct. 547, 62 L. Ed. 1196, 1918 U.S. LEXIS 1864
CourtSupreme Court of the United States
DecidedJune 10, 1918
Docket272
StatusPublished
Cited by151 cases

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Grinnell Washing MacHine Co. v. E. E. Johnson Co., 247 U.S. 426, 38 S. Ct. 547, 62 L. Ed. 1196, 1918 U.S. LEXIS 1864 (1918).

Opinion

Mr. Justice Day

delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was brought by the Grinnell Washing Machine Company against the E. E. Johnson Company fpr infringement of letters patent No. 950,402 granted to W. F. Phillips February 22, 1910. The patentee states the object of the invention to be ‘-to provide a gearing *427 device of simple, ddrable and inexpensive construction, especially designed for use in operating washing machines and wringers, by means of power applied by an electric, motor or other source of power.”

The patent has been several times in litigation. In the United States District Court for the Southern District of Iowa it was held valid and infringed. 209 Fed. Rep. 621. It was again sued upon in the same District Court, and upon appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit a decree holding the patent valid and infringed was sustained. 222 Fed. Rep. '512. In the case at bar the patent was sustained in the District Court for the Southern District of Illinois where it was held valid and infringed, and a decree entered accordingly. From *428 this decree an appeal was taken to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and that court reversed the decree below, and held the patent invalid. 231 Fed. Rep. 988. A writ of certiorari brings the last-named case here.

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