Cottle v. Krementz

The bill alleges that on the fourth of January, 1876, one Robert Stokes, being the inventor of an “improvement in busk fastenings, ” duly made application for a patent; that, prior to the granting of letters patent, Stokes duly assigned to Thomson, Langdon & Co. the full and exclusive right to the said -invention; that letters *495patent were in due form of law issued and delivered to Thomson, Langdon & Co., as assignees, whereby there was granted to them for the term of 17 years the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the invention throughout the United States and territories; that by an…