Legal Opinion
Bourne v. Jones
District Court, S.D. Florida
Decided July 24, 1951No. 756-M-CivilPublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WHITEHURST, District Judge.
The plaintiff in this suit, Dr. Benjamin Arthur Bourne, in 1936 applied for and was granted plant patents on three varieties of sugar cane, which he bred in 1930 and 1931. This suit was subsequently brought against the defendant, Luther Jones, claiming that the defendant had infringed plaintiff’s patents and praying for injunctive relief and an accounting.
The suit involves the validity of plant patents numbers 203, 210 and 220 granted under Title 35, § 31, U.S.C. The plaintiff applied for a patent covering sugar cane variety F31-962 on May 11, 1936, on which…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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