CANON v. ROBERTSON

Nos. 1340, 1360, 1370.

32 F.2d 295 (1929)

CANON et al. v. ROBERTSON, Commissioner of Patents. SENITHA v. SAME. SINCLAIR REFINING CO. v. SAME.

District Court, D. Maryland.

March 30, 1929.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Ames Norton, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for plaintiffs Canon and another.

Hugo de Watteville Senitha, of New York City, in pro. per.

Pennie, Davis, Marvin & Edmonds, of New York City, for plaintiff Sinclair Refining Co.

A. W. W. Woodcock, U. S. Atty., of Baltimore Md., and T. A. Hostetler, of Washington, D. C., Sol., for Commissioner of Patents.


WILLIAM C. COLEMAN, District Judge.

The sole question here presented is whether this court has jurisdiction of the Commissioner of Patents in three suits in equity brought under section 4915, of the Revised Statutes (44 Stat. 1335; 35 USCA § 63), to compel the Commissioner to issue certain patents. The question is raised by motions to dismiss the bills of complaint for want of jurisdiction. The Commissioner, although a resident of Chevy Chase, Md., and therefore...

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