Hubel v. Tucker

The complainant, as owner of letters patent No. 275,092, issued to him as assignee ol Taylor, April 3, 1883, files his bill alleging interference between his patent and a patent issued to William A. Tucker, No. 305,336, September 30, 1884. The prayer for relief is that the latter patent he declared void because of the al*702leged priority of invention of complainant’s assignor. The defendants, by a plea, set up as a defense that the Tucker patent was issued by the patent-office after a decision in interference proceedings between the two patents in favor of Tucker, and insist upon that decision…