Allen v. Consolidated Fruit Jar Co.

TANNING, District Judge.

By their bill the complainants sét forth that Joseph C. Allen, one of the complainants, was the original, first, and sole invéntor of improvements in receptacles for tooth powder having telescopic tops with circumferential openings; that he duly filed his application for a patent thereon; that on June 5, 1901, he assigned his invention and his right in and to any letters patent that should be issued thereon to the defendant, reserving to himself a royalty to be paid to him by the defendant upon the articles manufactured and sold under the patent, in case one should be…