Carpenter Straw-Sewing Mach. Co. v. Searle
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Suit by the Carpenter Straw-Sewing Machine Company against Haskell A. Searle and others for infringement of a patent. Bill dismissed.
1Opinion of the Court
Coxe, District Judge.
This is an action in equity, based upon reissued letters patent, No. 10,600, granted to the complainant, as assignee of Mary P. C. Hooper, for improvements in machines for sewing straw braid. The reissue is dated May 26, 1885, 9 years, 4 months, and 22 days after the original, which bears date January 4, 1876. The defenses are—First, that the reissue, as a reissue, is void; second, insufficiency of description in specification and drawings; third, lack of novelty and invention; fourth, noninfringement.
The fifth claim only is involved. It is as follows: “(5) The…
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