United States v. Line Material Co.

DUFFY, District Judge.

As a boy in.grade school I many times pondered the answer to the problem then often discussed among younsters: What would happen if an irresistible force came into collision with an unbreakable and immovable object? The issue to be decided in the case at bar recalls that boyhood problem. when I consider how the ambit of the monopoly given to the owner of a patent and to his licensees by the patent laws comes into head-on collision with the ambit of the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, 15 U.S. C.A. §§ 1-7, 15 note.

The eighth clause of Article I, Section 8, of the United States…