CLAIM FOR £10,000
PLAINTIFF FAILS
DEODORISERS CASE
(United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) (Received October 5r 11.30" a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Judgment for the defendants was given in the case in which a claim for £10,000 was made by Murray Deodorisers, Limited, New Zealand, against two Melbourne companies, James Bell Machinery, Limited, and O'Connell and Kerr, Limited, for alleged infringement of a patent for appliances, for deodorising and partially dehydrating milk and cream. It was alleged that the defendants were making and selling such appliances, the patent for which was owned by the plaintiff. The defendants pleaded that the patent was not novel and had previously been published and used. The Judge hfld that the patent had not been infringed and made an. order against Murray Deodorisers, Limited, for costs, which are expected to exceed £3000 for the 15 days which the hearing occupied. The Judge said that so far as he was able to ascertain Murray was the first man to^build a machine for the purpose of deodorising butter, milk, etc., by a "continuous oncethrough process but the claim soughts greater protection than was warranted by his invention, since it' sought to monopolise every means whereby the separate operations specified might be carried out_ -
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 14
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205CLAIM FOR £10,000 Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 83, 5 October 1938, Page 14
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