Laws more or less similar to this, and securing to theassignor the use of the mortgaged property, are believed to exist in a majority of the states.
That when an assignment of the copyright in a specified book or other work has been recorded the assignee may substitute his name for that of the assignor in the statutory notice of copyright prescribed by this Act.
An assignee cannot, apart from special agreement, prevent his assignor selling against him copies of the book which such assignor has printed before assignment.
If an assignee of a copyright fail to print a proper notice he will have no remedy even against his assignor for infringement.
An assignee taking from a registered assignor probably cannot sue in respect of acts of infringement committed before the registration of the assignment.
If the assignor is registered as proprietor complete assignment may be made by entry on the Book of Registry at Stationers' Hall.
An executory contract or a purported assignment not valid at law will be recognised in equity, and the Court will order specific performance or compel the assignor to allow the assignee to sue in the assignor's name.
If an action is brought by an assignee, such assignee must be on the register as proprietor,[934] and it will not avail to join as co-plaintiff an unregistered assignee with the assignor who although registered has parted with the copyright.
An assignee is not bound by a licence granted by the assignor before the assignment, unless he has notice of it.
Riggs, same place, and said Riggs assignor to D E.
I give the page from which I read: "To make such admissions or declarations competent evidence, it must stand as a fact in the cause, admitted or proved, that the assignor or assignees were in a conspiracy to defraud the creditors.
If after such notice the debtor should pay the assignor or a subsequent assignee, such payment would not discharge the debtor, and the first assignee could collect the claim from him.
Further, the assignor authorizes the assignee to receive the payment or performance due from the other party to the contract and to keep it for himself.
Upon assigning a contract, the assignor or assignee must notify the other party to the contract, of the assignment, else payment to the assignor will discharge the other party.
In other words, in case of an assignment, all defenses that were good against theassignor are good against the assignee.
The assignor of a contract can transfer only such property rights as he possesses.
A United States patent on a coffee concentrate and process of making the same (soluble coffee) is granted to Sartori Kato of Chicago, assignor to the Kato Coffee Company of Chicago.
In 1906, Ludwig Schmidt, assignor to the Essmueller Mill Furnishing Co.
In 1919, Charles Morgan, assignorto the Arcade Manufacturing Co.
Schnuck, assignor to Jabez Burns & Sons, New York, was granted a United States patent on an improvement for a gas coffee roaster.
United States patents on a coffee concentrate, and process for making the same (soluble coffee), were granted to Sartori Kato of Chicago, assignor to the Kato Coffee Co.
Additional United States patents were granted in 1895 to Marcus Mason, assignor to Marcus Mason & Co.
Robert Burns of New York, assignorto Jabez Burns & Sons, is granted a United States patent on a coffee-granulating mill.
I asked also, ought not an honest assignee to be pleased that Government intends to do that justice to his assignor which he ought to do himself, were the whole payment made to him?
Does it not give to the assignee the very thing stipulated between the assignor and assignee, that is, whatever sum the Government shall be pleased to pay for the certificate?
Now, by an act of violence, you take the half of it away, and enable the assignor to discharge the contract by paying fifty dollars, when he had engaged that the purchaser should receive one hundred.
Where is the justice of doing more for the assignee than he or his assignor expected could or would be done?
Either the consideration had never been paid, or the signatures were fraudulent, or perhaps the paper had been executed when the assignor was demonstrably of unsound mind.
There are now but two men in Court who saw the paper executed, namely, the assignor and the assignee.
Charles Alden, Newburg, assignor of part interest to Alden Fruit Preserving Company, New York city.
