PATENT RIGHTS CASE.
Leave to Defend Allowed by Court. A motion for leave to defend a pending patent rights case in the Supreme Court was upheld by Mr Justice Johnston yesterday. The plaintiff was Joseph Alvin Armitage, of Caulfield, Victoria, a manufacturer, carrying on business at Dowling Street, Dunedin, and elsewhere in the Dominion, as the Como Lubricator Company (Mr Hunter), and defendant was Salvo, Ltd., of I Christchurch, manufacturers (Mr Young). Plaintiff alleged that the defendant company had been guilty of infringing his patent rights on a lubricator for supplying oil to the upper parts of motor-car engine cylinders. Mr Young said that the lubricators in question were being sold by the company fourteen months before plaintiff took out patent rights. Leave was granted to file a defence, conditional upon an early hearing Costs were awarded to plaintiff.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20285, 20 April 1934, Page 4
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