Legal Opinion
Doig v. Morgan Mach. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
Decided October 17, 1898PublishedCited by 1 opinion
Rui I: in equity for the infringement of a patent. On motion for a preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
The patent in suit, No. 342,268, has received careful judicial construction in Doig v. Sutherland, 87 Fed. 991, where the claims in issue, Nos. o and 6, were sustained by the circuit court. The defendant resists the motion for an injunction upon two principal grounds: First, that the former suit was not a bona fide one; and, second, that the state of the art as now presented establishes the invalidity of the patent for lack of invention.
The first proposition fails for want of proof. The controversy in the Sutherland suit seems to have been genuine and to have been…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Beach v. InmanU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1896
- Doig v. SutherlandU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1898
- New York Filter Manuf'g Co. v. Elmira Water-Works Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1897
- New York Filter Manuf'g Co. v. Niagara Falls Waterworks Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1896
3Cited by1 opinion
- Tyler Estate v. HoffmanMissouri Court of Appeals · 1910