Sawyer Spindle Co. of Maine v. Carpenter
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island
In Equity. Suit for infringement of letters patent No. 363,425, for a spindle support for spinning machines, granted to Albert R. Sherman May 24,1887.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
Letters patent No. 363,425, for a spindle support for spinning machines, issued May 24, 1887, on the application of Albert R. Sherman, filed July 3, 1882. The defendant contends that this patent expired in 1897, through a limitation of its term by a British patent to Alexander Melville Clark, dated May 19, 1883 (No. 2,510), for an invention “communicated to him from abroad by Albert Read Sherman.” To meet this ground of defense, the complainant contends that the act of Congress of March 3, 1903, c. 1019, 32 Stat. 1225, 1226 [U. S. Comp. St. Supp. 1903, pp. 405, 406],…
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