Stiller v. Squeez-A-Purse Corp.

This is an appeal from an order of the district court restraining appellant Benjamin Stiller from prosecuting a suit for the infringement of his patent, then pending in the United States District Court in North Carolina.

Appellant had filed the suit in North Carolina against a sales agent of appellee, claiming that the sales agent knew that appellee company had manufactured the goods which he was selling; and that the appellee had infringed appellant’s patent in manufacturing such goods for sale. The action in North Carolina was filed five days before appellee filed its action in the United…