Smoley v. New Jersey Zinc Co.

FORMAN, District Judge.

This is a suit brought to have defendant declared a trustee ex maleficio of fourteen United States letters patent 1 and corresponding foreign patents now owned by defendant, and to compel defendant to assign the patents to plaintiff, and to account for all profits derived from the use of the inventions covered by the patents. An injunction is sought restraining defendant from assigning or granting licenses under the patents and from further contesting a certain interference proceeding now pending in the United States patent office involving one of the patents owned by…