Slattery v. Eureka Auto Chain Co.

NIELDS, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Edward P. Slattery, granted an exclusive license to his coplaintiff, Peter J. *437Nagle, under United States letters patent No. 1,438,560, for a “Repair Link for Tire Chains.” In this suit they charge Eureka Auto Chain Company, a Delaware corporation, with infringement, and seek an injunction and an accounting.

The defendant in its answer denies infringement and by way of counterclaim charges the plaintiffs with infringement of Roth United States patents No. 1,692,577 and No. 1,734,830, assigned to it, for an “Emergency Repair Link.”

The links in controversy…