A. B. Dick Co. v. Fuller’s Empirical Analysis
6 F.2d 393
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2
cited by 2 later decisions
February 1949
most recently cited
1 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Gompers v. Bucks Stove & Range Co. · In re Kahn · Quinn v. . Whitney · Board of Trade v. Tucker · American Shipbuilding Co. v. Commonwealth S. S. Co.
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““It is not questioned that the A. B. Dick Company, which was the complainant in the suit before Judge Hunt, assigned all its property, patents, and good will to the complainant in this suit, which is a different corporation of the same name and with the same stock interests. Such an assignment entitles this complainant to enforce the rights adjudicated in the former suit and to recover damages for any infringements of the provisions of the former decree. American Shipbuilding Co. v. Commonwealth S. S. Co. [6 Cir.], 215 F. 304 , 131 C.C.A. 604 . Moreover, the contract was not personal and might be validly assigned. Quinn v. Whitney, 204 N.Y. 363 , 97 N.E. 724 . “While the decree of Judge Hunt and the injunction issued in accordance therewith might have been more detailed, the injunction order restraining the defendant from ‘directly or indirectly engaging or becoming interested, during the operation, of said contract of May 12, 1911, in the manufacture, use, or sale of material or processes of the class or character illustrated by the said several inventions, * * . * ’ when preceded earlier in the writ of injunction by the words ‘relating to stencil paper or processes or methods for preparing, producing, or using the same,’ would seem to sufficiently inform the defendant as to what he ought to do. I think the complainant’s counsel is correct in saying that the life of the contract is limited to that of the original patent granted June 23, 1914. If there is any doubt about this”
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