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Standard Computing Scale Co. v. Computing Scale Co.

Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

Decided November 20, 1903No. 1,211PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. . The appellant brought suit upon a bill in equity to restrain the appellee from interfering with and injuring its business by publishing allegations charging the infringement of patents belonging to the appellee, and charging other unlawful proceedings of the appellant detrimental to its trade.

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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Ohio. . The appellant brought suit upon a bill in equity to restrain the appellee from interfering with and injuring its business by publishing allegations charging the infringement of patents belonging to the appellee, and charging other unlawful proceedings of the appellant detrimental to its trade. The appellee appeared and answered, denying all wrongdoing on its part, and alleging the fact to be that the appellant was infringing certain patents belonging to it, and thereupon filed its cross-bill with similar…

1Opinion of the CourtSeverens, Circuit Judge

The appellant is charged with the infringement of the following patents: A patent to J. A. Pitrat, No. 385,005, issued June 26, 1888; a patent to Ozias, No. 316,348, issued December 20, 1898; a patent to Sanderson & Ozias, No. 451,075, issued April 28, 1891; a patent to Culmer, No. 486,663, issued November 23, 1892; and a patent' to Mellinger, No. 11,738, reissued May 2, 1899. All of these patents were for improvements in “weighing and price scales,” more commonly called “computing scales,” the special purpose of which is to ascertain the whole price of the thing bought or sold, without any…

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