SUPREME COURT

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 60, 5 December 1918, Page 7

SUPREME COURT

DISPUTE OVER A PATENT. A case arising from.a dispute between an employer and his servant as to patent rights was board V Air. Justice Masking yesterday in the' Supreme Court. The plaintiff was Frederick W; S. Colejy electrical engineer, and J. I , '. Ci. Roberts, manufacturer, was the defendant. Plaintiff, for whom Mr. P. J. evi appeared, stated that he was employed by defendant to take charge of- the electrical frorlc in defendant's workshop. •In answering a question put by defendant in vocation In-electrical healing iilijngs, witness, said he could turn out iin improved article. The idea he pr&pufsd to use ■ had occurred to him before lie. interviewed defendant, but he had not. made ;m article'on (he lines lie demonstrated. The contrivance, could lie applied to any lmuinfaclurp, for electric . cooking or. hulling purposes. The.idea was aplirnyed. and it was agreed, to jatent it on half shares if successful. The patent was liiki'ii our, but plaintiff's interest was excluded. He .sough.- (he Cimrt t<- declare thai he w.is entitled to a half-sharp, or interest in the invention and in Hie proceed-) from working the patent. Mr. M. Myers, who appeared for defendant, held that. Roberts was the inventor <if the contrivance, lie denied that, there was any agreement to lake out a niilent in the joint names of plaintiff and dofend-int. Decision was reserved.