THOMAS F. MURPHY, District Judge.
This is a motion for a preliminary injunction against infringement of a patent on a thread tensioning device for use in sewing machines. The patent was issued in 1938, is scheduled to expire within five months and has remained unadjudicated. Defendants distribute and sell a sewing machine manufactured in Japan and embodying the alleged infringing thread tensioning device.
In support of its application, plaintiff—in...
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