Theo. W. Foster & Bro. Co. Starts Action Against Providence Manufacturer Alleging Infringement on Identification Lockets and Holders
Providence, R. I., Oct. 5.—A bill of complaint, alleging violation of letters patent issued to the plaintiff on an improvement in identification tag lockets and holders, was filed in the United States District Court for the Rhode Island District on Tuesday by the Theodore W. Foster & Bro. Co. of this city, incorporated under the laws of Maine. The James A. Foster Co. and Augustus A. Greene, doing business as A. A. Greene & Co., both of this city, are named as the defendants.
The bill recites that Theodore W. Foster was the inventor of the specified improvement, for patents on which he applied June 20, 1917. Before the letters patent, No. 1,255,870, were issued on Feb. 12, 1918, it is alleged that Mr. Foster assigned all rights held by him to the Theodore W. Foster & Bro. Co. The complainant asserts that the J. A. Foster Co. has sold lockets and holders embodying the improvement in question, and that these articles were purchased from Augustus A. Greene, who manufactured them. The plaintiff asks that the defendants be required to pay over such profits as it has made from the sales and that it be restrained from further violation of the patents.
A temporary injunction to restrain defendants until the trial of the case is also sought and subpoenas have been served upon the defendants, J. A. Foster Co. and Augustus A. Greene.
Ernest L. Fuller, of Theo. W. Foster & Bro. Co., and his wife have been enjoying a brief sojourn at the Oriole cottage at Coles Station overlooking Narragansett Bay.
T. Clyde Foster, of the Theodore W Foster & Bro. Co., was chairman of the committee of arrangements on the quindecinnial reunion of the class of ‘96 at Brown University, held in Rehob last Tuesday. He presented each guest with a handsome coat chain with the numerals ’96 enameled in white pearl.
J. A. Limbach, Chicago representative for Foster & Bailey, with offices at 167 Dearborn St., spent some ten days in northwestern territory, touching principal cities northwest and west.
Source: The Jewelers' Circular and Horological Review - 19th September 1894