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30 F. 187

Wirt v. Brown

United States Circuit Court for the Eastern District of New York · decided 1887-01-05

<p>Patents eor Inventions--Injunction-New Patent — Contempt.</p> <p>Where defendant was enjoined from making- a certain kind of pen, and thereafter made a different pen, on which he obtained a patent, held, on motion to attach for contempt of injunction, that the fact that a patent had been issued to defendant entitled him to have the question of infringement determined on a motion to prevent the making of this form of pen, and that the present motion should be denied.</p>

Cited by 2 later decisions — most recently July 1913

1 district ·

2 counsel of record

Relies on Felicit Fletcher v. Celine Babin · Onderdonk v. Fanning

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Decided 1887-01-05

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¶1Patents eor Inventions--Injunction-New Patent — Contempt.

¶2Where defendant was enjoined from making- a certain kind of pen, and thereafter made a different pen, on which he obtained a patent, held, on motion to attach for contempt of injunction, that the fact that a patent had been issued to defendant entitled him to have the question of infringement determined on a motion to prevent the making of this form of pen, and that the present motion should be denied.

¶3In Equity. On motion to attach for contempt.

¶4W. S. Logan, for plaintiff.

¶5Charles H. Bulkley, for defendant.

¶7Benedict, J.

¶8The motion for an attachment in this case presents the same question that arose in Onderdonk v. Fanning, 2 Fed. Rep. 568. *188The defendant has not, since the injunction was issued, made any pen similar in all respects to the pens he made prior to the injunction. The pen he is shown to have made since the injunction was not presented when the injunction was granted. Since then the defendant has obtained a patent for the form of pen presented on this motion. It may be that the pen now complained of infringes upon the plaintiff’s patent, but the fact that a patent has been issued to the defendant, which covers this form of pen, should, I think, entitle the defendant to have the question of infringement determined on a motion for an injunction to prevent the making of this form of pen, instead of by a motion to attach him for contempt by violating an injunction issued to prevent the making of another form of pen. Motion denied.

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