Chas. Pfizer & Co. v. Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.

SLOAN, District Judge.

The plaintiff, Pfizer (by assignment from Lloyd H. Conover, patentee), is the owner of United States Patent No. 2,699,054 issued January 11, 1955, which contains claims to tetracycline, its salts,, and antibiotic compositions containing the products.

These three actions were filed on the day the patent issued, and they charge the defendants with having infringed the patent. They charge the defendants with having manufactured and sold tetracycline and with threatening to continue to do so in violation of plaintiff’s rights under its patent.

Plaintiff requests, inter alia,…