Kamborian v. United Shoe Machinery Corp.

SWEENEY, District Judge.

In this action the plaintiffs, who are, respectively, the owner and the sole licensee of the patents here involved, charge the defendant with infringing Letters Patent No. 2,251,284, a machine patent, and No. 2,254,224, a method patent. The plaintiffs seek an injunction against further infringement and an accounting of profits. The defenses urged at the trial were that the patents were invalid for want of invention, or because misdescriptive or inoperative, and a denial of infringement.

All of the parties are active in the construction and leasing of shoe building…