Brown v. Davis
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE NORTHERN DISTRICT OE NEW YORK. This was a suit in equity on an alleged infringement of a patent. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
This is a suit in equity, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York, on reissued letters patent No. 8589, granted to Charles F. Davis and William Allen, February 18, 1879, for an “improvement in grain drills,” the original patent, No. 74,515, having been granted to said Davis, as inventor, February 18, 1868. The application for the reissue was filed January 24, 1879. The defendes set up in the answer are, want of utility and novelty, invalidity of the reissue, and nón-infringement. The specifications of ‘the original and reissued patents are here…
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