Carnegie Steel Co. v. Cambria Iron Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania
This is a suit in equity for the infringement of a patent for a process used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel by the direct method.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, District Judge.
This case concerns the art of steel-making. As the difficulties which the patent sought to obviate in that art arose in the Bessemer process, and its practical application has been wholly therein, an account of such process, and its relation to and effect on the art would seem proper, if not, indeed, indispensable, to a proper understanding of the case. And as this patent underlies, and in a measure possibly dominates, the successful commercial converting of Bessemer steel by the direct process, the *723importance of the question involved must be a sufficient warrant…
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- Seymour v. OsborneSupreme Court of the United States · 1871
- O'Reilly v. MorseSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
- Tilghman v. ProctorSupreme Court of the United States · 1881
- Cochrane v. DeenerSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Corning v. BurdenSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
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