Legal Opinion
Ohio Brass Co. v. Hartman Electrical Mfg. Co.
District Court, N.D. Ohio
Decided May 5, 1917PublishedCited by 8 opinions
In .Equity. Suits by the Ohio Brass Company and by the McTighe Improvement Company against the Hartman Electrical Manufacturing Company. On motions to strike counterclaim from answers.
1Opinion of the Court
WESTENHAVER, District Judge.
These two suits are based upon the same patent, alleging infringement by the defendant. The answers deny infringement and challenge the validity of the patent sued on. In addition thereto each answer pleads a counterclaim as follows:
“And this defendant pleads, by way of counterclaim, that the plaintiff individually and acting in conspiracy with its putative licensee, Ohio Brass Company, of Mansfield, Ohio, and others unknown to the defendant, has damaged and is damaging this defendant, by unlawful and unfounded threats of suit against its customers, and by unfair…
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