Foster Hose Supporter Co. v. Thomas P. Taylor Co.

PLATT, District Judge.

This so-called bill in equity, alleging infringement of letters patent No. 638,540, is an old friend with a new face. Thomas P. Taylor, the owner of the property at Bridgeport,. Conn., in which he had manufactured and sold the abdominal pads covered by said patent, was made defendant in a bill in equity in this-court filed May 27, 1907. That bill recited that said Taylor had been' licensed under the Young patent, but for failure to pay royalties on time the owner of the patent had canceled the license, and that therefore his manufacture and sale of the pads since the…