Legal Opinion
Benjamin Menu Card Co. v. Rand
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
Decided June 7, 1894No. 22,741PublishedCited by 7 opinions
In Equity. Suit by the Benjamin Menu Card Company against Rand, McNally & Co. and others. On final hearing. Decree for complainant.
1Opinion of the Court
SEAMAN, District Judge.
The complainant has title to the alleged invention of improved meal checks, or a combination of menu card with meal checks, under letters patent No. 482,899, issued to Frank C. Gellenbeck, September 20, 1892, and sues in equity for infringement by defendants, for injunction and accounting. The infringement is undisputed, and all defense rests upon defeat of the patent for invalidity.
The claims of the patent are stated as follows:
“1. The combination, with a menu card, of two or more checks detachably secured thereto, two of said checks being designated respectively as…
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