Jost v. Borden Stove Co.
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
In Equity. Suit by Estelle C. Jost, administratrix of the estate of John Frederick W. Jost, deceased, against the Borden Stove Company.
1Opinion of the Court
DICKINSON, District Judge.
This'case concerns letters patent No. 771,018, issued September 27, 1904, on an improved oil burning lamp.
The Equities of the Case.
[1] The patent is a purely paper one. This fact, together with the fact that May 17, 1919, is the filing daté of the bill, imply ground of suspicion of the merits of the patent. The seeming indifference of the owner may however be explained, and has been explained. The inventor, because of failing health and lack of capital, was compelled to permit his patent to lie fallow. His widow and administratrix was unable, for want of financial…
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