Roscoe Fowler v. Vimcar Sales Company, Victor M. Carter and Morris J. Halopoff

This is an appeal from final judgment of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California, Central Division, dismissing appellant’s complaint.

The record in this case shows that Appellant Fowler is the holder of United States letters patent No. 2,516,196 and as set out in the findings of the trial Court, the record shows that the subject matter of the letters patent is an adjustable overhead door hinge employed primarily for overhead garage doors and consisting of a pair of hinges, each incorporating a bracket for attachment to the door jamb, a master arm pivoted at its mid-portion to the bracket, and at one end of an angle iron or siderail on the door, a cantilever arm pivoted at one end of the bracket and at its other end to a gusset plate attached to the siderail on the door, the cantilever arm being extendible for adjustment, and there being a counterbalancing spring attached at the end of the main arm remote from the door and attached to the doorjamb, below the plate.

Appellant Fowler is in the business of manufacturing and selling overhead door hardware under the firm name of Sturdee Steel Products Company, and for some time his hardware was known…