Pohl v. Anchor Brewing Co.

The bill of complaint alleges infringement by the defendant of letters patent of the United States dated March 18, 1879, for *783improvement in barrel and cask scrubbing machines, granted to Carl Pohl of Dresden, Germany, upon an application filed January 3, 1879, “subject to the limitation prescribed by section 4887 of the Revised Statutes, by reason of German patent dated September 6, 1877, and French patent dated September 3, 1877.” The defendant has interposed a plea averring, in substance, that both the German and the French patent were issued to Pohl for the same invention described in, and…