Legal Opinion
Garfield v. Western Electric Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided May 26, 1924PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtLearned Piand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). It is curious to me that any doubt should ever have arisen in a case like this. An inventor files his application in the Patent Office, and is eventually beaten in an interference with another applicant. At some time after filing, he assigns his application to another, and they together file a suit under section 4915. Pendente lite, the assignee in turn assigns to a third party, who declines to prosecute the suit, having composed his differences with the defendants. The inventor, thus left alone, insists upon prosecuting what amounts to a further appeal…
2Cases cited8 opinions
- Gandy v. MarbleSupreme Court of the United States · 1887
- Becker v. General Chain Co.Court of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1921
- Wende v. HorineU.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1911
- Colman v. American Warp Drawing Mach. Co.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1915
- Thoma v. PerriDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1913
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3Cited by11 opinions
- Coleman v. . WhisnantSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1945
- Coleman v. WhisnantSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1945
- Armstrong v. LangmuirCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1925
- John Tuman & Sons, Inc. v. BasseCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1940
- Turchan v. Bailey Meter Co.District Court, D. Delaware · 1956
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