Skinner v. Aluminum Co.

STEWART, District Judge.

Plaintiffs brought this action seeking damages for an alleged patent infringement and an injunction against further infringement. The suit was filed less than a week prior to the expiration of the patent so that the injunction aspect of the case is now moot. Defendants filed an answer raising six defenses, the fifth being that of laches and estoppel.

In conformity with the practice followed by this Court in Banker v. Ford Motor Co., D.C.1933, 3 F.Supp. 737 and approved by the Court of Appeals for this Circuit on appeal of that case, 1934, 69 F.2d 665, this Court, on…