International Cellucotton Products Co. v. Coe

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This is an appeal by the International Cellucotton Products Company from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia 1 dismissing its bill of complaint in equity against the appellee, the United States Commissioner of Patents. The bill sought an order directing the appellee to allow certain claims of the Oscar T. Thompson application for a patent on a sanitary-pad folding machine and to issue letters patent to the appellant. The appellee answered and there was a trial on the merits. The theory of the answer and of the court’s dismissal of the bill of…