Enterprise Manuf'g Co. v. Sargent

This is a motion for a preliminary injunction to restrain the defendants from the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 271,398, dated January 30, 1883, to John G. Baker, assignor, to the plaintiff, for a machine for mincing meat and other plastic or yielding substances. The question, so far as the first and second claims are concerned, are, (1) in.view of the undisputed state of the art, that of invention; and (2) that of infringement.

The meat-cutter described in the United States patent to Purches Miles, of July 13, 1864, and in the English patent for the same invention to Joseph…