Paul Steam System Co. v. Paul

Citations

• 129 F. 757
• 1904 U.S. App. LEXIS 4771

Syllabus

<p>1. Corporations — Notice—Knowledge of Officers.</p> <p>A corporation, having the right under a contract to purchase and own patents which should be granted to an inventor, if it should elect to do so before applications therefor were filed, and should pay the costs of obtaining the same, was charged with notice which required it to make such election where its president and some of its directors had knowledge that applications were to be filed by the inventor; and it was not necessary that its board of directors, as a body, should be given notice of the fact.</p> <p>2. Patents — Contract Giving Bight to Purchase — Abandonment.</p> <p>Where a corporation, having the right under a contract to purchase and own patents which might be granted to an inventor for a certain class of inventions, if it should so elect before applications were filed for such patents, and should pay the cost of obtaining the same — otherwise the inventor to have the right to obtain them in his own name and for his own benefit — made its election as to certain patents, and paid the preliminary fees, but afterwards advisedly failed to pay the final fees, such failure operated as an abandonment of its election, and left the inventor free to take the patents for his own benefit</p> <p>8. Preliminary Injunction — Sufficiency of Grounds.</p> <p>It is the practice of the federal courts to refuse an injunction pendente lite unless the ease shows beyond reasonable question the necessity for such intervention.</p> <p>f 1. See Corporations, vol. 12, Cent. Dig. §§ 1748, 1754.</p>