Packard Motor Car Co. v. Overland Motor Co.

CLIFFE, District Judge.

The plaintiffs in this cause charge that the defendant is using and selling a device for improvement in motor vehicles,1 in violation of plaintiffs’ rights and in infringement of letters patent No. 1,103,567, issued July 14, 1914.

The record discloses that one Edward P. Cowles was the original inventor of, and the applicant'for letters patent upon, a'device for an improvement in motor vehicles, more fully described in the specifications for patent; that before the issuance of said létters patent the said Cowles assigned all his rights under said application to one James…