New York Bung & Bushing Co. v. Doelger

This is an equity action for infringement, founded upon reissued letters patent No. 10,368, granted to the complainant August *19225, 1883, for an improvement in bungs and bushings. The original patent, No. 141,473, was granted to Samuel E. Thompson, August 5, 1873, for an improvement in bushings for faucet holes. It was first reissued, No. 8,483, to McKean, Jackson, and Brown, November 12, 1878. This reissue having been pronounced invalid, as containing an unlawfully expanded claim, the patent was again reissued in form substantially like the original, exeejff that the inventor limits the…