Case ID: balt-c-rep_1/html/0095-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "DENNIS, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

CIRCUIT COURT OF BALTIMORE CITY
    Filed March 15, 1890.
    IN THE ESTATE OF HAFFEKE & CLARK.
    
      (i. R. Willis and A. S. J. Owens for Mr. Clark.
    
      F. P. Stevens & Son for Mr. Haffeke.
   DENNIS, J.

I am of the opinion that the words in the article of co-partnership, “the said Haffeke contributing all the rights to manufacture under the said letters patent,” constitute only a license to use the said patents, and such a license is not assignable, in tbe absence of appropriate language to show a clear intent that it shall be so assignable, e. g'., as by the use of the words “assigns,” “successor,” &c. In this1 case there are no words to show such intent, and the prayer of the petition must be refused.