Woodard v. Ellwood Gas Stove & Stamping Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania
This was a bill by William H. Woodard and L. D. Benedict against the Ellwood Gas Stove & Stamping Company, for infringe* ment of a patent for a vapor-burning stove attachment. Complainants moved for a preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
AGHESON, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit for the infringement of letters patent No. 249,842, issued November 22, 1881, to Charles P. Klein and William H. Woodard, for a vapor-burning stove attachment, and the case is now before the court upon a motion for a preliminary injunction. Clearly the defendant infringes if the patent is valid. This is not denied. To defeat this motion, the defense mainly relied on is that the patentees were not joint inventors, but that Klein was the sole inventor of the device in question. It appears, however, that in an action at law for the infringement of this…
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