Lektophone Corp. v. Rola Co.

These, are two suits brought by the Lektophone Corporation- alleging the infringement of a patent. In the first named, No. 19, in the Ninth Circuit, the decision was for the defendant, 34 F. (2d) 764, affirming the decree of the District Court, 27 F. (2d) 758, and declining to follow the Third Circuit’s decision in Lektophone Corporation v. Brandes Products Corporation, 20 F. (2d) 155. A writ of certiorari was granted by this Court, 280 U. S. 551. Later, the second of the suits before us, No.. 68, was brought in the Third Circuit, and the District Court, in obedience to the precedent there,…