Time Telegraph Co. v. Himmer

The peculiar facts of this case authorize the granting of a preliminary injunction as to some of the defendants, although the complainant’s patent is of recent date, and has never been adjudicated. The defendant Himmer was the inventor and assignor to the complainant of the improvement in electric clocks, described and claimed in the letters patent of the complainant. While he was in the employ of the complainant as its superintendent he ordered certain clock mechanism to be made, which was identical in parts and arrangements with that now sought to be enjoined, respresenting it to be one of…