Kennicott Water Softener Co. v. Bain
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. Suit in equity by the Kennicott Water Softener Company against John E- Bain. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtGrosscup, Circuit Judge
The bill seems to have been dismissed because it appeared satisfactorily to the trial judge that, at and before the filing of the bill, appellee had, in good faith, ceased the use of the alleged infringing device, of which the appellant had sufficient notice — that, at the time the bill was filed, appellee was not employing the infringing device designated in the bill, or anything that infringed appellant’s patent, and had not been for some three months previously — and that there was nothing in the attitude of appellee that justified appellant in believing that the discontinuance was not in…
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