94 F. 154 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Michigan | 1898
A motion is made in this case for a preliminary injunction to restrain the defendant from manufacturing or selling a certain kind of lifting jacks, which are alleged to be infringements of the patents of the complainant. It appears from examination that the claims in the complainant’s patents here sued on have been the subject of litigation in the federal courts of the Third circuit, where their validity has been sustained' by the circuit court and the circuit court of appeals upon records nearly as full as the present in respect to the defense of anticipation. Manufacturing Co. v. Forgie, 57 Fed. 748, 78 Fed. 626; Id., 26 C. C. A. 654, 81 Fed. 865. Upon that point the question was quite elaborately considered, and evidently upon a bona fide record and strenuous controversy. The general rule of comity requires this court, in such circumstances, to
The defendant here, for the purpose of obviating the consequences of this rule, submits and relies upon the Card patents, Nos. 116,-290 and 123,010, as clear anticipations of the complainant’s claims. But, whatever consideration and effect may be given to those patents upon final hearing, I think it cannot be held that they constitute such clear and positive proof of anticipation as to meet the requirement of the present occasion. I think a preliminary injunction should issue as prayed.