WILLIAM W. WOODWORTH, ADMINISTRATOR, &C., AND E. V. BUNN, ASSIGNEE, COMPLAINANTS AND APPELLANTS,
v.
JAMES, BENJAMIN, AND ALPHEUS WILSON
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Woodworth, as administrator of a deceased inventor's estate and assignee of a planing-machine patent, sought to enforce the patent against the Wilsons for infringement. The Supreme Court reversed the lower court's dismissal, holding that Woodworth was the original inventor of the machine, the patent specifications were sufficiently detailed, and the parties were properly joined in the suit, thus affirming the complainants' right to enforce the patent and upholding the perpetual injunction against infringement.
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Mr. Justice NELSON delivered the opinion of the court.
The objection taken, that the administrator could not apply for an' extension of the patent granted to Woodworth, his intestate, under the eighteenth section of the patent law, has been disposed of iii the previous case of Wilson a. Rousseau et al., and need not be further noticed.
Another objection taken to. the right of . the complainants to maintain the suit is, that Woodworth was not the first and original inventer of the planing-machine, against the using of which the'defendant was enjoined.
Without going into the proofs in the .case, which are very voluminous, it will be sufficient to state, that after fully* considering all the evidence produced bearing upon the question, the court is satisfied that the weight of it is decidedly against the objection, and in fajror of .'.the allegation in the bill, that Woodworth was the original inventer of the machine.
It is objected, also, that the specifications accompanying the, patent were not sufficiently full and explicit, so as to enable a mechanic of ordinary skill to build a machine. The court is not satisfied., according to the proof in the case, that the objection is. well founded, and it cannot be relied on as affording sufficient' ground for the dismissal of the bill.
' A further objection was taken, that W. W. Woodworth, one of the complainants, was improperly joined with E.. V. Bunn, the assignee of the exclusive right in Louisville and ten miles around it. - The court is of opinion, that the interest of Woodworth in the assignment, as appears from the record, is sufficient to justify his being made a party jointly with the assignee.
Some other objections were taken to the maintenance of the suit on the argument, which .it is not material to notice particularly; they have all been-considered, and in the judgment of the court afford no sufficient ground for the dismissal of the bill and the dissolving of the injunction.
We think the court erred; and that the decree dismissing the bill, as to the defendant James Wilson, and dissolving the injunction, should be reversed, and that a perpetual injunction should issue.
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