Volk v. Volk Manufacturing Co.

The judgment appealed from is for royalties upon knife-blade fuses and links manufactured and sold by the defendant. These are non-patentable improvements or changes over the ferrule type of fuse, the right and interest in and to the patent rights for such fuse and the improvements thereto having been granted by patents to plaintiff, and transferred to defendant’s predecessor. The validity of the judgment depends upon whether the contract between the parties transferred only these patent rights and the improvements thereto, together with the sole and exclusive right to manufacture and sell…