19 F.1d 823 - Davis v. Smith — 19 F. 823

How this case has been cited

Cited by 8 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 1931

2 federal appellate ·

Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.

¶1Patents bob Inventors—Expibation ob Patent—Demubrek.

¶2Demurrer to bill for profits and damages, filed against an infringer one day before the patent expired, sustained, and bill dismissed, with costs; following Root v. liy. Go. 105 U. S. 189, and Burddl v. Comstock, 15 Fed. Rep. 395.

¶3Demurrer to Bill.

¶4Coburn & Thacher, for complainant.

¶5Geo. L. Roberts & Bros., for defendant.

¶6Lowell, J.

¶7This bill, for profits and damages against an infringer of the plaintiff’s patent, was filed one day before the patent expired. The defendant demurs for want of equity; and Ms demurrer must be sustained. No equitable discovery or relief is sought by the bill beyond or different from that which is usual in ordinary patent causes. The plaintiff could not expect the court to grant a restraining order, which must expire before it could, by reasonable diligence, be served, nor was one prayed for. An injunction was impossible for want of time to notify the defendant. The ease, therefore, comes within Root v. Ry. Co. 105 U. S. 189; Burdell v. Comstock, 15 Fed. Rep. 395; Betts v. Gallais, L. R. 10 Eq. 392.

¶8Demurrer sustained. Bill dismissed, with costs.