Standard Parts Co. v. Peck
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. Certiorari to a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals which reversed in part a decree of the District Court in a suit brought by Peck to enjoin the Standard Parts Company from infringing his patent and for an accounting, etc.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SIXTH CIRCUIT. Certiorari to a decree of the Circuit Court of Appeals which reversed in part a decree of the District Court in a suit brought by Peck to enjoin the Standard Parts Company from infringing his patent and for an accounting, etc. The District Court adjudged the equities in the company’s favor and ordered Peck to assign to it the patent in question and any others, or applications therefor, based on inventions made by him in pursuance of his employment by the company’s predecessor. The Court of Appeals allowed the company only…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McKenna
Suit for injunction, preliminary and perpetual, and accounting for profits and damages, upon the ground of infringement of Letters Patent No. 1,249,473, issued to William J. Peck, respondent.
The bill is the usual one in patent cases. For answer to it the Standard Parts Company admits the use of the devices of the patent and alleges they .were constructed under the supervision of Peck and under the terms and provisions of a contract dated August 23, 1915, by and between him and the Hess-Pontiac Spring and Axle Company, for and in behalf of the latter company and the Western Spring and Axle…
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