Groth v. International Postal Supply Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from an interlocutory decree of the circuit court for the southern district of New York, which decreed in favor of the complainant in a bill in equity to restrain the infringement of the second and third claims of letters patent of the United States No. 341,-380, dated May 4, 1886, and of the first and third claims of letters patent. No. 388,366, dated August 21, 1888.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.
The inventions which are the subject of the two patents, and which, were made by the same inventors, are machines for automatically postmarking and canceling the stamps upon mail matter. The original specification which accompanied the application for the earlier patent described both electrical and mechanical means for actuating the stamp or marker. At the request of the patent-office examiner, ihe application was divided, and a new' one was filed on June 2, 1884, which was confined to purely mechanical means for releasing the stamp. This application was thrown into…
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