Georgia Pine Turpentine Co. v. Bilfinger
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western North Carolina
In Equity. Suit for infringement of letters patent No. 658,888 for a wood-distilling apparatus, and No. 674,491 for a process of distilling wood for making charcoal and saving the by-products, granted to Carl W. Bilfinger on a division of the same application. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
BOYD, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity, by the Georgia Pine Turpentine Company v. the Naval Stores Supply Co. and Carl W. Bilfinger, for infringement of letters patent No. 658,888 and No. 674,491, granted to the defendant Bilfinger for an improved apparatus and process for manufacture of charcoal and saving of by-products, which said letters patent, the same having been granted in the years 1900 and 1902, were thereafter, with all rights and privileges thereunder, as alleged in the bill, duly sold, assigned, and transferred to the complainant, who, at the commencement of this suit, was…
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