Reissner v. Anness

NIXON, District Judge.

The bill of complaint is filed against the defendants for in-' fringement of certain letters patent, No. 7,-751, reissued to John A. Frey, June 19th, 1877, for improvements in coal-oil stoves, to which the defendants have put in a plea embracing three distinct defences, and which are, in effect, three several pleas, substantially as follows:

(.1.) That the reissue to Fray was unlawful, because he had previously obtained a patent in Canada for the same invention, granted Hay 15th, 1873, for the term of five years, and the reissue here was not limited to expire at the same…