UNITED STA.TES V. ONE CASE CHEMICAL COMPOUND.
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tion in the premises, it follows that in holding the petitioner to trial before a jury, in receiving a verdict of guilty in the case, in entering sentence thereon, in holding the petitioner to bail pending the appeal to the supreme court, and in endeavoring to enforce the sentence by committing the petitioner to the custody of the sheriff, the state court and its officers acted without due authority or warrant of law, for want of jurisdiction in the premises, and, as it thus appears that the petitioner is deprived of his liberty without due warrant of law, he is entitled to his discharge as prayed for.
UNITED STATES v. ONE 'CASE OHEMIOAL OOMPOUND (two cases). In re SOCIETE FABRIQUES DE PRODUITS OHIMIQUES DE THANN ET DE MULHOUSE (two cases).
(District Court, S. D. New York. May 12, 1897.) CUSTOMS DUTIES--FoRFEITURE PROCEEDINGS-INTERVENTION BY PATENT OWNER.
A patent owner, who is suing an importer for infringement by the importation of infringing goods, which have been detained by the customs officials, and libeled for forfeiture, because of fraudulent undervaluation, may, for the protection of his interests, be permitted to intervene in the forfeiture proceedings, on giVing proper security.
Libel for Forfeiture. Intervention. Fabriques de Produits Ohimiques de Thann On petitions by et de .Mulhouse, owner of United States letters patent, for leave to intervene in forfeiture proceedings for its interest in the res, the fo,llowing facts appeared: These proceedings were begun by the government for the forfeiture of two cases of chemical compounds for fraudulent undervaluation. The petitioner herein claimed that the said compound was trinitrobutylxylene, or artificial musk, an article covered by United States letters patent to Albert Baur, No. 451,847, dated May 5, 1891. The owner of the patent (the petitioner herein) had brought suit In the United States circuit court against one Sander, the consignee of the goods, for Infringement of the patent, and being unable to learn the whereabouts of said Sander and ascertaining that he was acting through the firm of Messrs. Hatch & Wickes, who represented him as proctors In the forfeiture proceedings, made Messrs. Hatch & "Vlckes parties to the infringement suit. Service could not be effected on Sander. The other parties appeared. The bill of complaint prayed for the usual Injunction, and that the defendants be enjoined from obtaining possession of the shipments of artificial musk before mentioned. There was also a prayer that the goods be delivered up to be destroyed. A preliminary injunction was granted by his honor, Judge Lacombe, against Messrs. Hatch, Wickes and Clute, composing the firm of Hatch & "Vlckes, from acting as attorneys in fact of the defendant Sander to obtain the possession or control of said merchandise. It was expressly provided that the writ was not to operate in restraint of their "appearing and acting for said Sander as attorneys at law, counsellors or proctors in the forfeiture proceedings now pending" In this court.
B. F. Lee, for petitioner. That it is not necessary to show a claim enforceable in admiralty to entitle a petitioner to intenene in a proceeding in rem for his interest in the res. The Two Marys, 10 Fed. 919, at page 925, 12 Fed. 152, and 16 Fed. 697.
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FEDERAL REPORTER.
That the court may order an artIcle made In Infringement of a patent rIght to be delivered up to be destroyed. Frearson v. Loo, 9 Ch. Div. 48, 67; BIrd· sell v. ShalloI, 112 U. S., at page 487, 5 Sup. Ct. 244.
James R. Asst. U. S. Atty. Hatch & Wickes (Walter C. Low, of counsel), for claimant. BROWN, District Judge. The petitioner has a sufficient interest to justify his intervention on giving security; the other parties should then answer the petition unless they admit the facts stated in it. If its statements are denied and any issues are presented not appropriate for trial in this court, they can be sent to the appropriate court and the proceedings here stayed in the meantime.
DRAPER et at. v. WATTLES.t
(CIrcuIt Court, D. Massachusetts. February 21, 1879.)
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COSTS IN EQUITy-ApPORTIONMENT.
A plaintIff is not to be refused costs merely because he may not have recovered all that he has in good faith and wIth reasonable prudence supposed hImself entitled to. Where three patents were sued on, and two were held valId and Infringed. but as to the third it was found that infringement had not been fully made out by a preponderance of evidence, held, that plaintiff would not be denied full costs, especially as there had been no attempt to discrIminate sharply the Infrlngemepts of the third patent from the others.
ll. SAME-PATENT SUITS.
This was a suit in equity by George Draper and others against Joseph W. Wattles for alleged infringement of three patents. The cause was heard upon a question as to the allowance of costs. Thomas L. Livermore, for complainant. David HaH Rice, for defendant. LOWELL, Circuit Judge. The bill of complaint was brought upon three patents, and in the opinion of the court two of them were valid and had been infringed, and as to the third the finding was that the infringements had not been fully made out by a preponderance of the evidence. Under these circumstances the respondent contends that the costs should be apportioned in some equitable mode, and the complainants maintain that they should have full costs. The court, undoubtedly, has control over the subject of costs, excepting when the case comes within section 4922, Rev. St., which provides that, if the patentee has claimed in his specification more than that of which he was the first inventor or discoverer, he shall recover no costs, unless he shall have entered a proper disclaimer at the patent office before suit. This power to award or refuse costs, in whole or in part, may prove to be useful in the very long and expensive litigations which are so much in vogue at the present time, and I should be unwilling to abdicate that power. But this case 1
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