Daimler Mfg. Co. v. Conklin

HAZEE, District Judge.

The bill charges infringement of four United States letters patent of which complainant corporation is the owner. The defendant has demurred thereto on the grounds that the bill is multifarious, in that it contains no allegation that the patents are capable of conjoint use, or are conjointly used or infringed by defendant, and that there is an improper joinder of parties complainant. The allegations of the bill that "the inventions aforementioned, and each and all of them, are applied to a machine,” etc., and that the defendant imported and now uses a Mercedes machine,…