Case Name: R. WILLIAMSON & CO. v. LUMINOUS UNIT CO.
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1917-10-18
Citations: 245 F. 988
Docket Number: No. 2495
Parties: R. WILLIAMSON & CO. v. LUMINOUS UNIT CO.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 245
Pages: 988–988

Head Matter:
R. WILLIAMSON & CO. v. LUMINOUS UNIT CO.
(Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.
October 18, 1917.)
No. 2495.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Suit by the Luminous Unit Company against R. Williamson & Co. From a decree for complainant (241 Fed. 265), defendant appeals.
Affirmed.
Carlos S. Andrews and A. Miller Belfield, both of Chicago, Ill., for appellant.
Harry Lea Dodson, of Chicago, Ill., for appellee.
Before BAKER and ALSCHULER, Circuit Judges.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM.
The decree appealed from found valid and infringed United States patent No. 1,076,418, October 21, 1913, to Guth, for new lighting fixture, and found valid, but not infringed, United States patent No. 1,082,322, December 23, 1913, to Guth, in the same art, and found appellant guilty of unfair competition against appellee in making and marketing a fixture which resembles appellee's product and ordered injunction and accounting. The record satisfies us that the inventions for which the said patents were granted show some patentable advance even in this very much crowded art, that appellant's infringement of the first-named patent is plainly apparent, and that unfair competition appears in the very close simulation by appellant of appellee's product in respect to unessential and nonfunctional details. We find that the issues presented by this controversy were properly disposed of by the decree entered in the District Court, and that decree is accordingly affirmed.