Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. v. Stanley Electric Mfg. Co.

EACOMBE, Circuit Judge.

The act of March 3, 1897, provides that in suits brought for infringement of patent the circuit courts shall have jurisdiction in the district of which defendant is' an inhabitant, or in any district in which the defendant shall have committed acts of infringement, and have a regular and established place of business. The defendant company is a New Jersey corporation, therefore it is not an inhabitant of the Southern district of New York. It has á regular and established place of business here, but, in order to maintain its right to the relief prayed for from this…