Automotive Products Corp. v. Wolverine Bumper & Specialty Co.

DENISON, Circuit Judge.

Pageol, a citizen of California, as patentee, gave an exclusive license .to the Automotive Company, a California corporation. It did not contain any express power of revocation. After a period of inaction by the licensee, Pageol insisted that he was no longer bound. Later he transferred rights under the same patent to the American Chain Company, a corporation of New York. Later he and this company began a suit in a California state court of general equity jurisdiction, making the Automotive Company defendant, and seeking both a decree that the first license be rescinded…