Bignall v. Harvey

This suit is brought on re-issued letters patent granted to John Deuchfield, January 16, 1872, for 14 years from April 20,1858, “for an improvement in cooling and drying meal.” It is the same patent which was the subject of the suit in Herring v. Nelson, 14 Blatchf. 293. In that case, after full consideration, the re-issued patent was sustained against the objections that it was not for the same invention as the original patent; that new matter had been introduced into the specification of the re-issue contrary to the statute; and that the patentee was not the first inventor of what is…