Legal Opinion
Sontag Chain Stores Co. v. National Nut Co. of Cal.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 20, 1940No. 671PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice McReynolds
The Circuit Court of Appeals declared respondent’s reissue patent No. 20,024, for a nut treating apparatus, valid and infringed by petitioner’s use of the accused machine, and rejected the defense of intervening rights. The record requires us to consider what effect an enlarged inclusive reissue claim has upon the use of a machine manufactured and operated after grant of the original patent without infringing it, but which does come within ihe enlargement.
Kohler’s patent — No. 1,958,409 — with four narrow claims, issued May 15, 1934.
Petitioner procured and began to use the machine here…
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