Bate Refrigerating Co. v. Hammond
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. ‘This was a suit in equity, brought in the Circuit Court of-the United States for the District of Massachusetts, December 16, "1886,'bythe Bate-Eefrigeratiiig Company, a NewTork corporation, against'George H.-IIammond and Company, a Michigan corporation, founded on the alleged infringement of letters patent No." 197,314, granted to John J. Bate, November 20, 1877, for the term» of seventeen…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. ‘This was a suit in equity, brought in the Circuit Court of-the United States for the District of Massachusetts, December 16, "1886,'bythe Bate-Eefrigeratiiig Company, a NewTork corporation, against'George H.-IIammond and Company, a Michigan corporation, founded on the alleged infringement of letters patent No." 197,314, granted to John J. Bate, November 20, 1877, for the term» of seventeen years from that day,-on an application filed December 1, 1876, for an “improvement in processes. for preserving meats…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatohfobd
The questions discussed at the bar arise under § 4887 of the Revised Statutes, which is as follows: “No person shall be debarred from receiving a patent for his invention or discovery, nor shall any patent be declared invalid, by reason of its having been first patented or caused to be patented in a foreign country, unless the same has been introduced into public use in the United States for more than two years prior to the application. But every patent granted for an invention which has been previously patented in a'foreign country shall be so limited as to expire at the same time with the…
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