Hunter Douglas Corp. v. Kwik-Kleen Venetian Blind Laundries, Inc.

The above-entitled cause heretofore tried, argued and submitted, is now decided as follows:

Judgment will be for the plaintiff adjudging the patent in suit to be valid and infringed, with injunction against further infringement and accounting for damages pursuant to Section 70 of Title 35 U.S.C. * Reference to Leslie S. Bow-den to take accounting and determine damages. Costs to the plaintiff.

Findings and Judgment to be prepared by counsel for the plaintiff under Local Rule 7.

Comment

The action is for infringement of Patent No. 2646115 issued to Leon R. Bucher and Omar K. Skiver on July 21, 1953, on application filed January 24, 1952. The patent relates to a new type of Venetian blind, the object of which is to achieve “full closure.” The scope of the invention and the problem which the present invention was intended to meet is stated in the specifications in this manner:

Venetian blinds at all times have had as one of their objects the exclusion of a quantity of light. Only with the development of audio-visual education calling for the use of motion pictures, slides, television and the like, and the darkening of classrooms and auditoriums in order that these visual aids be…