SUES FORD MOTOR COMPANY.

The New York Times
16 August 1925

St. Louis Concern Charges It With Infringements of Patents.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15 (AP).—The Ford Motor Company is infringing on patents for automobile transmission bands, the Park & Bohne, Inc., of St. Louis, declares in a bill of complaint filed in United States District Court. The latter concern seeks an injunction and an accounting of profits it lost and damages suffered as a result of the alleged infringement.

The plaintiff says that in 1916 Thomas Locke White of Idaho City, Idaho invented improvements on transmission bands and obtained two patents, which later passed under the control of the local company, engaged in the manufacture and sale of automobile parts.

The petition states there was a heavy public demand for the bands. The Ford concern is specifically charged with knowingly contriving to deprive the St. Louis firm of the profits which would accrue to it under the invention by unlawfully manufacturing and selling bands containing principles of the invention.