Todd Protectograph Co. v. New Era Mfg. Co.

DICKINSON, District Judge.

This case and applied rulings may be thus formulated:

[1] Rights granted by letters patent, whose validity has been adjudged by the courts, should thereafter be recognized and enforced within the limitations of the necessary exceptions. There are no facts in this case which, on a motion for preliminary injunction, exclude this defendant from the operation of the general rule. The plaintiff was granted through the Patent Office the rights given by law to advance the policy of promoting invention by the stimulation of self-interest. The rights thus given were adjudged…