Free-Flow Muffler Company v. Kliewer

*791On Motion for Rehearing.

Appellants have filed an extensive and able motion for rehearing in this case and have most forcefully challenged our opinion in several respects, one challenge being to our statement that the patent had not been returned to appellee. It is true that the original letters patent were shown to have been in possession of appellee at the time of the trial, but the right to their use was still in appellants and will so remain until such time as they are recon-veyed, forfeited or cancelled by judicial decree. The physical possession of the letters patent does not carry with…