Cuno Engineering Corp. v. Hudson Auto Supply Co.

AUGUSTUS N. HAND, Circuit Judge.

In the above suit the defendants were held to infringe United States letters patent No. 1,460,095, and on August 8, 1929, an interlocutory decree was granted enjoining them from infringing the patent. No appeal was taken by the defendants from this interlocutory decree, but on August 14, 1930, over one year after its entry and after the accounting before the master had been proceeding for some time, they gave notice of a motion for a rehearing, because of newly discovered prior patents and misapprehension as to defendants’ rights. The only reason given for such…