Green v. Porter

Citations

• 123 F. 351
• 1903 U.S. App. LEXIS 4909

Syllabus

<p>1. Courts—Injunction in State Court—Counter Injunction in Federal Court—Refusal.</p> <p>Where a party obtained from a state court an injunction forbidding the plaintiff in a patent infringement suit in a federal court to assign or release his claim, a counter injunction sought by plaintiff in the federal court will be refused, on account of the comity existing between federal and state courts, and the confusion which would result from conflicting decrees.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>It seems that federal courts would not allow state courts to restrain the prosecution of suits relative to the infringements of patents, over which federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction; but no practical difficulty of that nature now arises.</p>