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- Title: Richa v. Wichita Precision Tool Co.
- Author : Supreme Court of Kansas
- Release Date : January 07, 1962
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 49 KB
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The opinion of the court was delivered by This is an action by which John H. Richa, individually and as trustee of the estate of Charles B. Jones (hereinafter referred to as appellees), seeks to recover from the Wichita Precision Tool Company, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as appellant), royalties alleged to be due under a non-exclusive license agreement dated December 30, 1953. The license agreement covered one basic patent which expired April 21, 1958, and six other patents, all relating to ""garment finishers"" for use in pressing and shaping garments after they had been cleaned. It granted appellant the right to make, use, and sell garment finishers ""embodying the improvements disclosed and claimed"" in such patents. All royalties were paid until the basic patent expired. Appellant then notified appellees that no further royalties would be paid, and stopped attaching any of the patent numbers covered by the license agreement to its machines. Appellant then continued manufacturing machines or apparatus under its trademark ""Adjusta-Form,"" which it contends do not fall within the scope and protection of the claims of any of the existing patents covered by the license agreement.