AN INTERESTING CASE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 1049, 9 December 1911, Page 4

AN INTERESTING CASE.

The vaflWity of the Gillies Air Admission Patents iha,s rfecently been' demooitjrated isa the Supreme. Court'in, Dunedin, by His Honour Sin- Joshua Strange iWii>KMnis> granting laai inirtinctSbn against Alexander SmaiM, junlr., preventing Mm from using the GliMies Patent on the SimafiH Milking Machine. The Ifolllowiug is au> extract, of the finding of the Court:— "This Court doth adjudge and order that an injamctaoan be awarded ivst'rainriuig the defendants and each and every of them their and each of their respectilve .servants, agents and workmen dulling thei icoaitinuaiuce of tlife Letters Patent (granted to the PilhAntiff, and any extension of the term thereof from using or exercising or eaus'lng or pei iEiilttung to he used and exercised ,tiii© invention, described in. .the specfc-ficaitioni and drawings, filed with the said Letters; Patent, and from (manufacturing, stHing, Jetting for hire, di'spasimg or making any profitable use or promoting or being engaged or interested in the manufacture, sale, letting for hires disposal, or .profitiablie oit'e of any pneumatic mffiking apparatus not made by the plaintiif oT Ibis Ic'oen'sees amd having, applied thereto the (principle of air adoniSiacn' Km the manner desenifoed, and for the. purposes mentioned aim he isaid (specification or so con'struated. AS TO ALLOW OF AIR ADMISSION FOR THE PURPOSES OF FACILITATING THE TRAVEL OF THE MILK FROM THE COW TO THE RECEIVER, or*differing from such pneumatic milking apparatus only colorably and by the substitution of mere mechaniical ejjuivalentj* ojr from in any .manner infringing the rights amd privileges granted: to theplaintiif by the said Letters Paten*. AN DFURTHER, that the defendant Atflexaaider SmniiUJ the Younger do deliver an oath to the Plaintiff or destroy or otherwise render Uiifit for use all' pneumatic milking apipartii» -manufactured Or Let for liire by or by the order of for the use \'f the said Defendant in infringement of -thes'aid Letters- Patent as aforesaid which are on the-possession, custody or power of the said defendant or of his servants, or age-nit's or under his or tihcir control." The foregoing ip roves' concltnsivedy that the. CflMies Air Admission Patent, as applied to the L.K.G. Milker is valid and cannot be used by any other r.iiiclnine. Fbll particulars on application, to J. B. MACEWAX AND CO., Ltd., Wellington.