Legal Opinion
Brown v. Lapham
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided April 1, 1886PublishedCited by 7 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
The defendants appear to have been licensees of the plaintiff under his patent No. 264,854, dated September 26, 1882, for an improvement in stylographic pens, and afterwards to have repudiated the license and continued their infringement in defiance of the patent. The plaintiff has moved for a preliminary injunction. On this motion the defendants have filed affidavits tending to show that a manufacturer for the plaintiff of another style of pen, and his own workmen, devised this improvement for the plaintiff, and that they were the inventors of it, although the plaintiff got the patent for…
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