New Jersey Zinc Co. v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Co.

MORRIS, District Judge.

To interrogatories filed by the plaintiff in this patent infringement suit of tbe New Jersey Zinc Company against E. I. Du Pont de Nemours & Company, Inc., tbe defendant has presented objections. Of these tbe.most fundamental is that tbe interrogatories, intended presumably to elicit information to support tbe allegation of infringement, are not restricted to tbe ascertainment of tbe existence or nonexistence of facts wbicb would establish infringement, but that, on tbe contrary, they inquire generally and without regard to tbe patents in suit to that which defendant…