Hommel Mfg. Co. v. East Side Mfg. Co.

KERRIGAN, District Judge,

This is a suit brought by the plaintiff Sullivan, as patentee, and by his licensee, Hommel Manufacturing Company, to restrain the manufacture and sale of Sullivan’s-device by the defendants, on the ground that such manufacture and sale constitute an infringement upon United States reissue letters patent No. 16,-103; said patent being a reissue of original patent No. 1,435,429, granted to Sullivan November 14, 1922, for the same alleged invention. The infringement complained of results from the fact that the defendant Walter E. Marquart is manufacturing and selling the…