Dalzell v. Dueber Watch Case Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. These were two bills in equity, heard together in the Circuit Court, and argued together in this court.
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. These were two bills in equity, heard together in the Circuit Court, and argued together in this court. On March 31, 1886, Allen C. Dalzell, a citizen of the State of New York, and the Fahys Watch Case Company, a New York corporation, filed a bill in equity against the Dueber Watch Case Manufacturing Company, a corporation of Ohio, for the infringement of two patents for improvements in apparatus for making cores for watch cases, granted to Dalzell, October 21, 1885, for the term of which he had, on…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Gray
The more important of these cases, and the first'to be considered, is the bill in equity of the Dueber Watch Case Manufacturing Company to compel specific performance by'Dalzell of an oral agreement, alleged to have been made by him while in its employment, to assign to it the right' to obtain patents, for his inventions in tools for making parts of watch cases.
An oral agreement for the sale and assignment of the right, to obtain a patent for an invention is not within the statute of frauds, nor within section-4898 of the Eevised Statutes requiring assignments of patents to be in writing; and…
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