Standard Match Corp. v. Bell Mach. Co.

EVANS, Circuit Judge.

Appellant brought suit against appellee to enjoin it from threatening the former’s customers with suits for infringement of a patent. Appellee denied improper conduct and joined in its answer a counterclaim which charged appellant with infringement of its design patent, No. 93,757. The court, at the conclusion of the trial, dismissed appellant’s bill and entered a decree for appellee on its counterclaim. From this decree, appellant appeals.

Appellant’s complaint was dismissed for failure of proof to support it. Affirmance of this part of the decree may well be made with…