Toledo Computing Scale Co. v. Moneyweight Scale Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
In Equity. Suit by the Toledo Computing Scale Company against the Moneyweight Scale Company.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, District Judge.
Suit for infringement of the De Vil-biss patent No. 12,137, for a computing scale, called the “Toledo scale,” reissued July 28, 1903, application filed November 16, 1901. The original is No. 649,915, dated May 22, 1900. The defenses are invalidity of reissue, want of novelty, and no infringement. The reissue is claimed invalid because alleged to be for a different subject-matter than the original, no inadvertence or mistake other than a possible error of judgment in accepting the original claims, and that the original patent record expressly concedes the invalidity of…
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