Legal Opinion
Precision Instrument Manufacturing Co. v. Automotive Maintenance MacHinery Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided April 23, 1945No. 377PublishedCited by 982 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Murphy
The respondent, Automotive Maintenance Machinery-Company, charged in two suits that the various petitioners had infringed three patents owned by it relating to torque wrenches. It was further asserted that the allegedly infringing acts also breached several contracts related to the patents. In defense, the petitioners claimed inter alia that Automotive possessed such “unclean hands” as to foreclose its right to enforce the patents and the contracts.
The District Court, at the close of a consolidated trial on the sole issue of Automotive’s alleged inequitable conduct, delivered an oral opinion…
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