Hazeltine Corp. v. Atwater Kent Mfg. Co.

DICKINSON, District Judge.

There . are few rights which are so far absolute as that they can be enforced to the limit without running into a wrong to some one else. This is the infringement of a patent suit. A patentee has the undoubted right granted by law to ask for an injunction and for damages against every maker, user, or seller of what has been patented. When, however, as here, the patented thing is made by a manufacturer who sells to jobbers, who in turn sell to dealers, who in their turn sell to users, and the patentee brings suit against every infringer, a very great inequity may be…