General Industries Co. v. Birmingham Sound Reproducers, Ltd.

BARTELS, District Judge.

Plaintiff moves, pursuant to Rule 33, Fed.Rules Civ.Proc., 28 U.S.C.A., for an order striking certain interrogatories served by the defendants.

This is an action for alleged infringement of certain patents dealing with plural speed phonograph turntable drive mechanisms. Defendants’ answer denies the infringement and by way of affirmative defense asserts invalidity of the patents. However, they do not include as a defense misuse or “unclean hands”. The three remaining interrogatories now before the Court seek the following information: (1) whether plaintiff ever granted…