MALONEY v. STONE

Civ. A. No. 57-781.

171 F.Supp. 29 (1959)

Roger Q. M. MALONEY v. Lester A. STONE, Hampden Novelty Manufacturing Company, Inc. and Andersons & Sons, Inc.

United States District Court D. Massachusetts.

January 16, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

DiMento & Sullivan, Francis J. DiMento, Boston, Mass., for plaintiff.

Hale & Dorr, Geo. H. Foley, James A. Brink, David Burstein, Charles E. Cunningham, Boston, Mass, for defendant.


WYZANSKI, District Judge.

This case presents the sole question as to when is the beginning of the period of limitation, or more precisely of laches, for the bringing of a suit for "damages" by a holder of a United States copyright against a defendant corporation which, pursuant to a contract with a third party, manufactures for that third party alleged infringing copies of plaintiff's work designed by that third party.

Plaintiff's inartistic complaint, filed...

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