Gleason & Bailey Manufacturing Co. v. Hoffman

The John G. Hoffmau Manufacturing Company, a corporation, was the owner of certain inventions in fan-blowers, for which applications for letters patent had been made and were afterwards issued, and being desirous of having the same manufactured and sold, it entered into a contract with appellant by which it licensed the exclusive right to manufacture the invention, and the prices at which each machine was to be sold at retail and wholesale, and by the manufacturer, were fixed. By numerous clauses of the contract the duties and rights of the parties thereto were declared and times of…