Tannage Patent Co. v. Adams
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
This was a suit in equity by the Tannage Pateut Company against William W. Adams and others for alleged infringement of letters patent Nos. 291,784 and 291,785, issued January .8, 1884, to Augustus ¡áchultz, for processes of “tawing- hides and skins.” The cause was heard on motion to dissolve a preliminary injunction.
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This was a suit in equity by the Tannage Pateut Company against William W. Adams and others for alleged infringement of letters patent Nos. 291,784 and 291,785, issued January .8, 1884, to Augustus ¡áchultz, for processes of “tawing- hides and skins.” The cause was heard on motion to dissolve a preliminary injunction. Each patent contains a single claim, as follows: No. 291,784: “The within-described process for tawing hides and skins, said process consisting in subjecting the hides or skins to the action of compounds of metallic salts, such as a solution of bichromate of potash, and then…
1Opinion of the Court
AOHESOH, Circuit Judge.
The Schultz patents were sustained by the circuit court of appeals for this circuit in the case of Patent Co. v. Zahn, 28 U. S. App. 620, 17 C. C. A. 552, 70 Fed. 1003, after bona ñde and protracted litigation upon the merits. In that case the validity of the patents was most vigorously contested. The proofs were voluminous, and the defense was conducted by experienced counsel. The pendency of that suit was well known to the trade most interested in defeating the patents. It is, then, a fair presumption that the defense there made against the validity of the patents was…
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- Tannage Patent Co. v. ZahnCourt of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1895
- Tannage Patent Co. v. DonallanU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1896
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