£10,000 CLAIM FAILS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23160, 5 October 1938, Page 16

£IO,OOO CLAIM FAILS

PATENT NOT INFKINGED NEW ZEALAND FIRM'S CASE TREATING DAIRY PRODUCTS (Received October 4, 10.50 p,m.),! MELBOURNE, Oct. 4 Judgment for defendants tvas' given to-day in the Supreme Court case in which Murray Deodorisers, limited. New Zealand, claimed £IO,OOO from two Melbourne companies. James Bell Machinery, Limited, and O'Connell and Kerr, Limited, for alleged infringement of a patent fort appliances for ing and partially dehydrating :milk and cream. .. •"! It was alleged that defendants were making and selling such appliances, the patent for whjch is owned by plaintiff. Defendants pleaded that the patent was not novel but hacl been previously published fetid used. ! .. The^Judgfeiheid that the patent had not been infringed, and made an order against Murray Deodorisers for costs, which, are expected to. exceed £3OOO for the 15-day Rearing. / ' The Judge said that so far as he was able to ascertain, was the. ffrst man build'a machine for the purpose of deodorising butter, mills?, etc., by a continuous onpe-through process, * but the 'Claim • sought greater' protection than was: warranted by* his invention, since it sought to :■ monopolise i every means by which the separate operations specified might be carried out.