INTERNATIONAL PULVERIZING CORP. v. KIDWELL


7 N.J. Super. 345 (1950)

71 A.2d 151

INTERNATIONAL PULVERIZING CORPORATION, PLAINTIFF, v. CLEO H. KIDWELL, ET AL., DEFENDANTS.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division.

Decided January 30, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Louis B. Le Duc, for the plaintiff.

Messrs. O'Mara, Conway & Schumann (Mr. Edward J. O'Mara and Mr. Mark N. Donohue, of counsel), for the defendants.


JAYNE, J.S.C.

Where a person expressly or impliedly contracts to devote his mental faculties and exercise his inventive ability for the benefit of his employer, the inventions conceived by him in the course of his employment and as a consequence of its pursuit belong in equity to the employer.

The following adjudications are informative of the doctrine and representative of its pragmatical application. Connelly Mfg. Co. v. Wattles, 49 N.J. Eq.

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