Sanders v. Logan
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania
[Bill filed by Benjamin D. Sanders against John T. Logan, William Bagley. and others for infringement of letters patent No. 6,545, granted to complainant for improvement in winnowing machines, issued the 19th Tune, 1849, reissued April 10, ’S55 (No. 306), praying for injunction to restrain the defendants from further use of said improvement, and for an account, &c.] 2 The claim of the original patent was as follows: “What I claim as my invention is the trunk F gradually…
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[Bill filed by Benjamin D. Sanders against John T. Logan, William Bagley. and others for infringement of letters patent No. 6,545, granted to complainant for improvement in winnowing machines, issued the 19th Tune, 1849, reissued April 10, ’S55 (No. 306), praying for injunction to restrain the defendants from further use of said improvement, and for an account, &c.] 2 The claim of the original patent was as follows: “What I claim as my invention is the trunk F gradually enlarged from below upward, and communicating with the atmospheric current through the screen H in communication with hopper…
1Opinion of the Court
GRIER. Circuit Justice.
The complainant alleges, in his bill, that he is the original and first inventor and patentee of “a machine for winnowing and cleaning grain of chaff, smut, and other impurities.” His original patent was dated June 19, 1849. It was afterward surrendered and a new patent granted, with an amended specification, on April 10, 1S55. The bill prays for an injunction and an account; and yet admitting the validity of the patent and its infringement by respondents, it is clear that, as a proper remedy for the injury complained of, neither an injunction nor an account is…
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