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COMPCO CORP. v. DAY-BRITE LIGHTING

No. 106.

376 U.S. 234 (1964)

84 S.Ct. 779

11 L.Ed.2d 669

COMPCO CORPORATION v. DAY-BRITE LIGHTING, INC.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 9, 1964.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerome F. Fallon argued the cause for petitioner. With him on the briefs were Horace Dawson and John H. O. Clarke.

Owen J. Ooms argued the cause for respondent. With him on the brief was Roy A. Lieder.

Solicitor General Cox, Assistant Attorney General Orrick, Daniel M. Friedman and Lionel Kestenbaum filed a brief for the United States, as amicus curiae, urging reversal.

MR. JUSTICE BLACK delivered the opinion of the Court.

As in Sears, Roebuck & Co. v. Stiffel Co., ante, p. 225, the question here is whether the use of a state unfair competition law to give relief against the copying of an unpatented industrial design conflicts with the federal patent laws. Both Compco and Day-Brite are manufacturers of fluorescent lighting fixtures of a kind widely used in offices and stores. Day-Brite in 1955 secured from the Patent...

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