Celluloid Manuf'g Co. v. Zylonite Brush & Comb Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was a bill for infringement of reissued letters patent to John W. Hyatt, Jr., and Isaiah S. Hyatt, assignors, for improvement in treating and moulding pyroxyline.
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This was a bill for infringement of reissued letters patent to John W. Hyatt, Jr., and Isaiah S. Hyatt, assignors, for improvement in treating and moulding pyroxyline. The reissue sued on was the third of the original, which was granted July 12,1870. The first reissue was granted June 23,1874, the second April 15, 1884, and the third, the one in suit, December 23, 1884. None of the claims of the original patent were retained in the first reissue ; the second reissue contained only one claim of the original; and the two claims of the third reissue, and the specification, so far as it related…
1Opinion of the CourtWallace, J.
The defendant has interposed a plea to the bill of complaint, and the plea has been set down for argument. The suit is brought upon reissued letters patent granted December 23, 1884, to John W. Hyatt, Jr., and Isaiah S. Hyatt, assignors, for improvement in treating and moulding pyroxyline. It appears by the plea that the original patent was granted July 12, 1870; that an application was made for a reissue May 26, 1874, and a reissue was granted June 23, 1874; that an application was made for a second reissue March 10, 1884, which reissue was granted April 15, 1884; and that an application was…
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