PATENT SKYLIGHTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 212, 13 September 1901, Page 2

PATENT SKYLIGHTS.

LAWSUIT OVER MR WADE’S

PATENT.

(Special to Times.)

Wellington, last night. Tho potent skylight of MrJ. W. Wade, of Gisborne, which has been the subject of legal bother for years, figured in tho Supremo Court once more to-day. The action was brought by Ballinger Bros., of Wellington, licensees of Wade’s patent, against a rival firm, Thomas Ballinger and Co., Limited, claiming an injunction restraining the defendants from infringing Mr Wade’s patent; and in tho alternative £750 damages, or an account of profits made from tho sale of skylights manufactured, and said to ho an infringement of the patent. Defendants hold the patent rights of a skylight which was patented by Bedell and Wollsly, in 1898, after some opposition by Mr Wade, and they claim now that the latter’s patent is not new, and is not a proper subject for a patent. On tho other hand, when Bedell and Wollsly were granted their patent, it was mado a condition by the Chief Justice that thoir specifications should ho amended. The present plaintiffs claim that thoso conditions have not been complied with, and that their rights aro still being infringed. A non-suit point raised by defendants, that plaintiffs’ specifications do not show what is actually claimed in respect of an injunction, was resorved.

Witnesses have been brought for tho defence from various parts of the colony, and the case will probably last some time.