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BECHER v. CONTOURE LABORATORIES

No. 559.

279 U.S. 388 (1929)

BECHER v. CONTOURE LABORATORIES, INCORPORATED, ET AL.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided May 13, 1929.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Floyd M. Sheffield presented the oral argument, and Mr. O. Ellery Edwards filed a brief for petitioner.

Mr. Charles S. Rosenschein, with whom Mr. Robert Moers was on the brief, for respondents.

MR. JUSTICE HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

In September, 1927, the respondents brought an action in the Supreme Court of the State of New York in which they obtained a judgment that the defendant, the petitioner, was trustee ex maleficio for Oppenheimer of an invention and letters patent issued to the defendant; that the defendant deliver to the plaintiffs an assignment of the letters patent and give up instruments similar to the invention; that...

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