Case Name: Roemer v. Neumann
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1885-03-29
Citations: 23 F. 447
Docket Number: 
Parties: Roemer v. Neumann.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 23
Pages: 447–448

Head Matter:
Roemer v. Neumann.
(Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
March 29, 1885.)
Patents for Inventions—'Violation of Injunction—Suit for Infringement.
Where a def endent lias infringed a patent after the granting of an injunction in a suit by tlie patentee, the fact that the patentee might, if lie chose, proceed against him for contempt, in violating the injunction awarded in the former suit, will not affect his right to sue for such infringement.
In Equity.
Briesen & Steele, for complainants.
Betts, Atterbury & Betts, for defendant.

Opinion:
Wallace, J.
The infringement of complainant's patent by the defendants, since the interlocutory decree in the suit between the samo parties in the district of New Jersey, creates a how cause of action in favor of complainant, and lie can proceed at law or in equity to enforce it. His right to do this is not impaired by the circumstance that he can also, if he chooses, proceed against defendants for contempt in violating the injunction awarded him by the decree in the former suit. The plea of another suit pending is bad.
19 Fed. Her. 98.