Gordon Johnson Co. v. Hunt

JONES, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff in this declaratory judgment action moves the court for a preliminary injunction enjoining the defendants, and each of them, from further proceeding in seven patent infringement actions pending in other Districts until the final determination of- this action. The infringement actions were brought against plaintiff’s customers, and were commenced subsequent to the time the declaratory judgment action in this court was begun.

The present motion raises questions considered by this court in Kahn v. Switzer, D.C., 101 F.Supp. 538. In the Kahn case the injunction was…