Wirt v. Hicks

This is a demurrer to the complainant’s bill in equity, to restrain the infringement of two letters patent for improvements in fountain pens. The complainant owns one of the patents as assignee, and the other as patentee. The bill alleges the originality and the novelty of the inventions, the grants of letters patent therefor, the sole ownership of the said letters by the complainant, and the infringements thereof by the defendants, by which they have made large profits. It further alleges that they are threatening future infringements, which will be to the complainant’s injury; that by the…