209 F. 874 | E.D. Pa. | 1913
The plaintiff moves for a preliminary injunction to restrain the defendant from making representations to the plaintiff’s customers that defendant’s patent No. 727,233 declared invalid in a suit brought by the defendant against the Central Improvement & Contracting Company in the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (155 Fed. 279), affirmed by the Circuit Court of Appeals in 158 Fed. 1021, 85 C. C. A. 7, is valid, or being
It appears from the bill and the affidavits that the plaintiff is manufacturing and selling a metallic curb guard constructed in accordance with the disclosure in the defendant’s patent, and that the defendant has, during the period from February, 1912, down to August, 1913, notified customers of the plaintiff and parties manufacturing the guard for the plaintiff, orally and by letters, that the guard infringes its patent and that it intended to bring suit in this district against such alleged infringers. It further appears that on July 9, 1913, the defendant filed a bill in equity in this court against James Kane charging infringement of the patent and praying for an injunction, an accounting, and damages.
The motion for preliminary injunction is denied.