Smith v. Ridgely
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. , This is a bill in equity filed by the appellant, Mark A. Smith, for the purpose of obtaining an injunction against an infringement of certain patents by the appellee, Charles T. Ridgeiy, and to recover for profits and damages. The parties to the suit were originally joint owners of the patents.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. , This is a bill in equity filed by the appellant, Mark A. Smith, for the purpose of obtaining an injunction against an infringement of certain patents by the appellee, Charles T. Ridgeiy, and to recover for profits and damages. The parties to the suit were originally joint owners of the patents. They were issued to Ridgeiy for himself, and as assignor of a one-half interest therein to Smith. These patents were issued, the first on the 25th day of September, 1888, and was numbered 389,901; the second was…
1Opinion of the CourtSeverens, Circuit Judge
By his bill in this case, the plaintiff complained of the infringement of both of the patents first mentioned in the preceding statement as having been originally owned by both parties, and of which he holds the license to.use the defendant’s one-half interest. But the plaintiff has since then apparently ignored the first patent, and now seeks for the establishment of the rights claimed by him under the second patent, No. 408,193. We shall, therefore, in dealing with the case, proceed upon a comparison of the invention embodied in the second of the patents to Ridgely and Smith, with the…
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