Siemens's Administrator v. Sellers
Supreme Court of the United States
t.y for an account, and for an injunction to restrain ement of letters-patent. Decree dismissing the bill from which the complainants appealed. After the cause was docketed in this court, one of the appellants died, and his administrator with the Will annexed appeared and prosecuted his appeal. The following is the case as stated by the court.
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t.y for an account, and for an injunction to restrain ement of letters-patent. Decree dismissing the bill from which the complainants appealed. After the cause was docketed in this court, one of the appellants died, and his administrator with the Will annexed appeared and prosecuted his appeal. The following is the case as stated by the court. This is a suit on a patent granted to the appellants, Charles ~W. and Frederick Siemens of Great Britain on the 12th day of January, 1869, being a reissue of a patent originally granted to the appellants on the 1st day of March, 1861. This patent was…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Bradley
The questions to be decided, therefore, are whether the English patent (which was given in evidence) was for the same invention as the American patent; and, if so, whether the latter is limited to expire at the end of seventeen years from the sealing of the former. "We think that both of these questions must be answered in the affirmative.
As to the first question, we have carefully compared the two patents, the English and American, and can see no essential difference between them. They describe the same furnace in all essential particulars. The English specification is more detailed, and the…
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