Loew Filter Co. v. German-American Filter Co. of New York
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. This is a suit in equity upon a bill filed by the German-American Filter Company of New York, as assignee of Heinrich Stockheim, complaining of the infringement by the appellants, the Loew Filter Company and Charles H. Loew, its secretary and treasurer, of patent No. 378,379, issued to Stockheim February 21, 1888,’ for a process for filtering beer.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Ohio. This is a suit in equity upon a bill filed by the German-American Filter Company of New York, as assignee of Heinrich Stockheim, complaining of the infringement by the appellants, the Loew Filter Company and Charles H. Loew, its secretary and treasurer, of patent No. 378,379, issued to Stockheim February 21, 1888,’ for a process for filtering beer. The bill charged the defendants with manufacturing and selling the apparatus employed by brewers in filtering beer, according to the process for which the…
1Opinion of the Court
SEVEREM3, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). It would
seem clear enough that the judge who granted this injunction made no mistake in holding that the making and selling these Alters, adapted to and intended, as they were, for, no other use than Altering beer or similar fluids, should be held as contributing to such use by brewers, and as standing on the same liability as the parties actually using them. A similar question has been before us on former occasions where like circumstances existed, and the rule just indicated was recognized and applied. Heaton-Peninsular Button-Fastener Co.…
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