Pressed Prism Glass Co. v. Continuous Glass Prism Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania
In Equity. Suit by the Pressed Prism Glass Company against the Continuous Glass Prism Company. For opinion sustaining the patents and finding infringement, see 150 Fed. 355. On exceptions to report of H. D. Gamble, master.
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHIBALD, District Judge.†
The result of this litigation is certainly anomalous. After having diligently practiced the patented process for upwards of three years, and contested its validity through the various steps of a protracted and expensive lawsuit, persisting in the infringement, after a decision had been rendered, up to the very day that the decree was signed, it now turns out, according to the report of the master, that the defendants were in no way benefited thereby, and this, by the peculiar logic, that the process was so superior to anything in the prior art as to have…
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