Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. v. Miller

McCrary, J.,

(orally.) This is a proceeding under section 4918 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, touching interfering patents. I will read the section in full:

“Whenever there are interfering patents, any person interested in any one of them, or in the working of the invention claimed under either of them, may have relief against the interfering patentee, and all parties interested under him, by suit in equity against the owners of the interfering patent; and the court, on notice to adverse parties, and other due proceedings had according to the course of equity, may adjudge and…