Eachus v. Broomall
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The bill in equity, which was dismissed on the merits by the decree appealed from, was filed by the appellant to restrain the alleged infringement of reissued letters patent No. 6315, dated March 2,1875, based on the original patent, No, 142,154, dated August 26, 1873, issued to James Eachus, the complainant.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES POR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA. The bill in equity, which was dismissed on the merits by the decree appealed from, was filed by the appellant to restrain the alleged infringement of reissued letters patent No. 6315, dated March 2,1875, based on the original patent, No, 142,154, dated August 26, 1873, issued to James Eachus, the complainant. The specification forming part of the original patent, as set out in the record, was as follows: “Be it known that I, James Eachus, of Coatesville, in the county of Chester, State of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Matthews
He stated the facts in the language above reported, and continued :
A comparison of the two patents, for the purpose of determining the question raised as to the identity of the inventions •described in them, requires an interpretation of the original patent in the light of the state of the art at the date when the application for it was filed. And w.e have the material for ascertaining .its meaning, in that view, by means of the evidence on that point contained in the record, which, although objected.to on the ground that no prior use or knowledge of the invention claimed had been…
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