Legal Opinion
Sackett v. Smith
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided May 13, 1890PublishedCited by 1 opinion
In Equity.
1Opinion of the CourtCoxe, J.
This is an equity action for infringement of two letters patent granted to the complainant for an improvement in fountain-pens. The first of these patents, No. 347,961, is dated August 24, 1886; the second, No. 353,162, is dated November 23, 1886. The applications were filed April 23, 1883. In both patents the improvements relate to fountain-pens in which the ink is sustained in the reservoir by atmospheric pressure, and is supplied to the pen by capillary attraction as distinguished from the attraction of gravitation. No. 347,961, in so far as it has reference to the present issue, relates…
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