Case ID: ohio-law-abs_6/html/0402-02.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "CUSHING, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

JOHNSON v. UPRITE MFG. CO.
    Ohio Appeals, 1st Dist., Hamilton Co.
    Slattery & Dunlap, Cincinnati, for Johnson.
    Dempsey & Dempsey, Cincinnati, for Uprite Mfg Co.
    897. PATENTS — 106 Assignments.
    1. Right to assign interest in patent, includes right to assign and authorize licensee to prosecute infringers.
    2. Instrument granting exclusive license to manufacture, sell and use patented devices, not properly acknowledged or recorded as assignment, held to constitute merely license.
   CUSHING, J.

1. Right of owner of patent under 35 USCA 47, to assign an interest therein, includes a right to assign and authorize licensee to prosecute infringers.

2. Instrument granting sole and exclusive license to manufacture, sell, and use devices made according to patents and providing for prosecution of infringers, not having been properly acknowledged or recorded as assignment under 35 USCA 47, held to constitute merely a license ceasing according to its terms on licensee’s ceasing to do business.

(Hamilton, PJ., concurs.)

For reference to full opinion, see Omnibus Index, last page, this issue.