Automotive Equipment v. Trico Products Corporation

KNIGHT, District Judge.

The petitioner herein moves to restrain certain customer suits brought by the respondent, and the respondent moves to dismiss petitioner’s petition for declaratory judgment. Petitioner is the manufacturer of suction operated windshield wipers for use on automobiles under the trade-mark “Motocrat.” Respondent manufactures a suction operated windshield wiper utilized' for the same purpose under the trade-mark “Trico,” and claims title to various patents covering such wiper.

On February 8, 1935, petitioner herein filed in the Southern District of New York a petition for a…