Renwick v. Pond
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In equity. [Final hearing on pleadings and proofs. Suit brought [by Edward S. Renwick and others against Charles H. Pond] upon letters patent for “improvement in breech-loading fire-arms,” granted to William C. Hicks, March 10, 1S37 [No. 16.797], reissued May 9, 1805 [No. 3,798], again January IS, 1870, and again March 1, 1S70. The patent was extended for seven years from March 10, 1871, but the bill was not founded on the extension. [In the foregoing engraving, winch…
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In equity. [Final hearing on pleadings and proofs. Suit brought [by Edward S. Renwick and others against Charles H. Pond] upon letters patent for “improvement in breech-loading fire-arms,” granted to William C. Hicks, March 10, 1S37 [No. 16.797], reissued May 9, 1805 [No. 3,798], again January IS, 1870, and again March 1, 1S70. The patent was extended for seven years from March 10, 1871, but the bill was not founded on the extension. [In the foregoing engraving, winch represents the invention of Hicks, the extracting hook is shown at m, fig. 1, and at a, figs. 2 and 3. In fig. 3 the hook is…
1Opinion of the Court
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
This suit is founded on reissued letters patent granted to William C. Hicks, March 1st, 1870, for an “improvement in breech-loading fire-arms.’’ The original patent was granted to Hicks, an inventor, March 10th, 1857, and was reissued to him May 9th, 18G5, and again January ISth, 1S70. On the 27th of February, 1871, the patent was extended for seven years from the 10th of March, 1871. This bill was filed in May, 1870, and is not founded on the extension.
The specification states, that the object of the invention “is, primarily, to extract from the breech of a…
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