Dowagiac Manufacturing Co. v. Minnesota Moline Plow Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
WRITS OF CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH CIRCUIT. The facts, which involve the construction and application of certain provisions of the patent laws of the United States in regard to liability for infringement, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Van Devanter
delivered the opinion of the court..We have here to review two decrees dealing with an accounting of profits and an assessment of damages resulting from the infringement of a patent granted February 10, 1891, for certain “new and useful improvements in grain-drills, commonly known as 'shoe-drills.’” The suits wherein these decrees were rendered were both brought by the same plaintiff but were against different defendants charged with separate infringement. The plaintiff, besides owning the patent, was manufacturing and selling drills embodying the patented improvements; and the defendants,…
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