Artvale, Inc. v. Rugby Fabrics Corp.

This is an appeal by plaintiff Artvale, Inc., from the district court’s refusal to hold defendant in contempt for alleged violation of a permanent injunction heretofore granted in plaintiff’s patent infringement action against defendant. On October 26, 1959, these parties had consented to entry of a judgment in the action declaring that plaintiff was the owner of a valid patent for knitted fabric and that the defendant had infringed this patent. The brief decree then enjoined the defendant “from manufacturing, using or selling netting fabrics con structed specifically according to Figures 1,…