Rice & Adams Corp. v. Lathrop

The question here to be determined arose in a suit in equity by respondent against petitioner, brought in the federal district court for the Western District of New York, for infringement of a patent. The bill ¿alleged repeated and continuing infringement of the patent by petitioner, preparation and readiness to continue such infringement, and that unless petitioner was restrained respondent would suffer great and irreparable damage, etc. It was further alleged that in a prior suit for infringement, brought by respondent against the Bowman Dairy Company, the patent hád been sustained as valid…