Foundry Services Inc. v. Beneflux Corp.

McGOHEY, District Judge.

The plaintiff, a New York corporation, moves for an injunction pendente lite to restrain the defendant, a Delaware corporation, from competing with it in the United States in the sale of certain fluxes and other products used in the manufacture of metal castings. The amount in controversy is adequate for diversity jurisdiction.

The defendant is a subsidiary of Foundry Services, Ltd., an English corporation which owns “certain secret processes, recipes and formulae relating to the manufacture” of the fluxes and other products. In 1934 the English corporation granted to…