Bonsack Mach. Co. v. Smith
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western North Carolina
This was a bill in equity by the Bonsack Machine Company and the American Tobacco Company against W. F. Smith and Sterling Smith, copartners as W. F. Smith & Co., for alleged infringement of certain patents relating to cigarette machines.
1Opinion of the Court
SIMOMTOM, Circuit Judge.
The complainant the Bonsack Machine Company is the owner, as patentee and assignee, of patents alleged to have been infringed by the Briggs patent, used and operated by these defendants, the Winston Cigarette Machine Company, J. A. Vance, Brown Bros. Company, and the Liberty Tobacco Works, and also by J. A. Leach & Co. The American Tobacco Companyr is the licensee of the Bonsack Company, enjoying the exclusive use of its patents. The present suit is. brought as a test case, involving and controlling all the oth.ers, which are either pending or threatened. It involves…
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