Sawyer Spindle Co. v. Eureka Spindle Co.

This suit is brought upon reissued letters patent No. 10,288, dated February 20,1883, granted to J. Birkenhead for improvements in spindle bearings for spinning machines. The original patent bears date July 9, 1878, and it was first reissued, with enlarged claims, November 23, 1880: the second reissue, now in suit, was taken out to correct the invalidity of the first, and it is verbatim the same as the original patent. This last action was taken under the 'advice of counsel after the decision *837of tlie supreme court in Miller v. Brass Co., 104 U. S. 350. I think it may be fairly said that the…