Hobbie v. Jennison
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan
This was a common-law action for the infringement of letters patent No. 45,201, issued to one Wyekoff, November 22, 1864, for an improvement in gas and water pipes.
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This was a common-law action for the infringement of letters patent No. 45,201, issued to one Wyekoff, November 22, 1864, for an improvement in gas and water pipes. The case was tried before the court upon substantially the following state of facts: Plaintiffs were the assignees of the patent for New York, New England, and all the eastern states north of the Carolinas, and carried on business as manufacturers of the patented pipe at Tonawanda, N. Y., with sufficient facilities for supplying the market in all the territory owned by them. Defendant’s firm, which had consisted of himself and one…
1Opinion of the CourtBrown, J.
Plaintiffs’ position in this ease is that there was cither a sale of the steam-pipe to Harvey & Son, with the knowledge that they were to resell to the Hartford Company, in which case the defendant would be held liable as an infringer, under the ruling in Hatch v. Hall, 30 Fed. Rep. 613, and Hatch v. Adams, 22 Fed. Rep. 434; or that Har-vev was the agent of Ayrault, Jennison & Co. in selling to the Hartford Company, and that such sale was made in the state of Connecticut, in violation of plaintiffs’ rights as the assignee of this territory. But about the only evidence which tend^ to show an…
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