Corporations
NATIONAL TYPEWRITER CO. v. POPE MANUF'G CO.
56 F. 849·United States Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts·1893
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Opinion
NATIONAL TYPEWRITER CO. v. POPE MANUF’G CO.
(Circuit Court, D. Massachusetts.
July 5, 1893.)
No. 2,685.
Federal Courts — Jurisdiction'—Territorial Limits — Suits against Corporations.
A corporation cannot be sued for infringement of a patent in tlie federal courts of a state other than that of its incorporation.
In Equity. Suit by the National Typewriter Company, a corporation organized under tlie laws of Maine, against the Pope Manufacturing Company, a corporation organized under the laws of Connecticut, for infringement of letters patent No. 238,387, issued March 1,1883, to Thomas Hall, for an improvement in typewriters. Heard on demurrer to the bill for want of jurisdiction.
Demurrer sustained.
Eodney Dund, for complainant.
William A. Redding, for defendant.
[MAJORITY — COLT, Circuit Judge.]
COLT, Circuit Judge.
The defendant, being a foreign corporation, incorporated under the laws of Connecticut, cannot, under the recent decisions of the supreme court, he sued in this district, and I must therefore sustain the demurrer on this ground.