Deitel v. Reich-Ash Corp.

L. HAND, Circuit Judge.

Deitel sued the defendant for the infringement of a patent issued to one Greer on July 3, 1923, for a “book-form savings bank,” the specifications and the claims so reading. He based his title upon an instrument executed to him by Greer on March 16, 1929, by which Greer, in consideration of certain rights not here important, sold and assigned to him “the exclusive right throughout the United States, its territories and dependencies and in all countries foreign to the United States, to use, manufacture and sell, or license others to use, manufacture and sell, vanity…