Kardo Co. v. Adams
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio; John H. Clarke, Judge. Suit in equity by the Kardo Company, substituted for the American Ball Bearing Company, against Henry J. Adams, dealing as Reo Motor Sales Company. From a decree dismissing the bill, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
HOLLISTER, District Judge.
Three corporations, the American Ball Bearing Company, the Packard Motor Car Company, and the Peerless Motor Car Company, were each the owners of separate patents on equipment for the rear axles of automobiles. Their patents were of such nature that apparently, as found by the trial court, they “interlaced or overlapped one another, so that, if one company gave a license under the patent which it owned, complaints of infringements and threatened suits straightway arose from one or another of the other companies.”
They thereupon, so that the ownership of all of the…
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