Eastman Photographic Materials Company, Ltd, v Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Judgment Date | 15 July 1898 |
| Judgment citation (vLex) | [1898] UKHL J0715-1 |
| Court | House of Lords |
| Date | 15 July 1898 |
[1898] UKHL J0715-1
House of Lords
After hearing Counsel as well on Friday, the 24th, as Tuesday, the 28th days of June last upon the Petition and Appeal of the Eastman Photographic Materials Company, Limited, of No. 115, Oxford Street, in the county of Middlesex, praying, That the matter of the Order set forth in the Schedule thereto, namely, an Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 29th of April 1897, might be reviewed before Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament, and that the said Order might be reversed, varied, or altered, or that the Petitioners might have such other relief in the premises as to Her Majesty the Queen in Her Court of Parliament might seem meet; as also upon the printed Case of the Comptroller-General of Patents, Designs, and Trade Marks lodged in answer to the said Appeal; And due consideration being had this day of what was offered on either side in this Cause:
It is Ordered and Adjudged, by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, in the Court of Parliament of Her Majesty the Queen assembled, That the said Order of Her Majesty's Court of Appeal, of the 29th day of April 1897, complained of in the said Appeal, be, and the same is hereby, Reversed: And it is further Ordered, That the Cause be, and the same is hereby,...
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