Cobb Temperature Regulator Co. v. Baird

JAMES, District Judge.

Plaintiffs having complained on account of. alleged infringement of their patent, defendants answered, denying the material allegations of the petition, including in the answer a denial that Cobb, the assignor of plaintiffs, was the first and sole inventor or discoverer, and alleging affirmatively prior use and publication; also prior patent.

Defendants particularly alleged, among other matter's; that the invention, process, and method described in the claims of the plaintiffs’ patent had been known to the public and'made, sold, and used in the United States long prior to…