MCCULLOUGH
v.
KAMMERER CORPORATION ET AL.

U.S. | 1945-01-02
No. 46
323 U.S. 327 Supreme Court of the United States (1945) Positive Treatment
Also reported at: 89 L. Ed. 273 · 65 S. Ct. 297 · 1945 U.S. LEXIS 2766 · SCDB 1944-148
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Holding

The Court dismissed the writ of certiorari because the issue presented was not properly raised, litigated, or passed upon in the lower courts.

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The lower courts found a patent valid and infringed. The petitioner sought review based on alleged unlawful restrictions in a license agreement, which…

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Per Curiam.

In this case both the District Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit have held valid and infringed the Reilly and Stone Patent, No. 1,625,391, of April 19, 1927, for a pipe cutting tool, of which patent respondent Kammerer Corporation is assignee. The patent expired on April 18, 1944, only damage for infringement is involved, and there is no conflict of decision with respect to the patent. This Court granted certiorari only because the petition for certiorari presented as a ground of defense to the suit, that respondent Kammerer Corporation had licensed to respondent Baash-Ross Tool Company the use of the patented device in suit, by an agreement which stipulated for restrictions on such use which are asserted to be unauthorized by the patent monopoly, contrary to-public policy, and unlawful.

On oral argument and submission of the cause it appears that although petitioner by its amended answer alleged generally that respondents “do not come into . . . court with clean hands,” the answer made no mention of the restrictions contained in the license agreement. The District Court made no findings of fact or law with respect to them. On appeal to the Circuit Court of Appeals petitioner assigned no error with reference to them and the Circuit Court of Appeals did not consider them, saying: “We affirm the judgments of the District Court, considering here only the appellant’s claim of error.” 138 F. 2d 482.

Thus the only question for which we granted certiorari is one not properly raised, litigated or passed upon below. Duignan v. United States, 274 U. S. 195, 200; Burnet v. Commonwealth Improvement Co., 287 U. S. 415, 418; Zellerbach Paper Co. v. Helvering, 293 U. S. 172, 182; United States v. Classic, 313 U. S. 299, 329. The grounds asserted for the allowance of certiorari are inadequately supported by the record, and the writ is therefore

Dismissed.

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  • McALLISTER v. United States, 348 U.S. 19 (U.S. 1954)
    …St. Louis Union Trust Co., 286 U. S. 533; Moor v. Texas & N. O. R. Co., 297 U. S. 101; Texas & New Orleans R. Co. v. Neill, 302 U. S. 645; Goodman v. United States, 305 U. S. 578; Goins v. United States, 306 U. S. 622; McCullough v. Kammerer Corp., 323 U. S. 327; McCarthy v. Bruner, 323 U. S. 673. I would dismiss the writ as improvidently granted. * See Labor Board v. Pittsburgh S. S. Co., 340 U. S. 498, 503: “This is not the place to review a conflict of evidence nor to reverse a Court of Appeals becaus…
  • Rice v. Sioux City Mem'l Park Cemetery, Inc., 349 U.S. 70 (U.S. 1955)
    …McGoldrick v. Gulf Oil Corp., 309 U. S. 2; Utilities Ins. Co. v. Potter, 312 U. S. 662; Harris v. Zion’s Savings Bank, 313 U. S. 541; Jones v. Opelika, 315 U. S. 782; [*79] Gorman v. Washington University, 316 U. S. 98; McCullough v. Kammerer Corp., 323 U. S. 327; McCarthy v. Bruner, 323 U. S. 673; White v. Ragen, 324 U. S. 760; Woods v. Nierstheimer, 328 U. S. 211; Phyle v. Duffy, 334 U. S. 431; Hedgebeth v. North Carolina, 334 U. S. 806; Superior Court v. Lillefloren, 335 U. S. 906; Loftus v. Illinois, 337…
  • United States v. Shannon, 342 U.S. 288 (U.S. 1952)
    …ouis Union Trust Co., 286 U. S. 533; Moor v. Texas & New Orleans R. Co., 297 U. S. 101; Texas & New Orleans R. Co. v. Neill, 302 U. S. 645; Goodman v. United States, 305 U. S. 578; Goins v. United States, 306 U. S. 622; McCullough v. Kammerer Corp., 323 U. S. 327; McCarthy v. Bruner, 323 U. S. 673. See also Washington Fidelity Nat. Ins. Co. v. Burton, 287 U. S. 97, 100; Wilkerson v. McCarthy, 336 U. S. 53, 64. Both of the petitions in these cases were filed on May 3, 1951, and granted on October 8, 1951. 34…

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