Cridlebaugh v. Rudolph

JONES, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff sued to restrain the defendant’s alleged infringement of certain patents and, further, to redress other injury said to have been inflicted by the defendant. To the extent that the case is one arising under the patent laws of the United States, the District Court’s jurisdiction is invoked upon that basis.

The additional causes of action averred by the complaint are for the defendant’s alleged infringement of a common law trade-mark of the plaintiff and for the defendant’s alleged unfair competition. Jurisdiction of each of these causes is expressly predicated…