Hutter v. De Q. Bottle Stopper Co.

TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.

Suit for infringement of patent No. 491,113, granted February 7, 1893, to Karl Hutter, for a bottle stopper, and patent No. 25,435, granted April 28, 1896, to Karl Hutter, tor a design for a bottle stopper. All of the issues in this case, so far as they concern the validity of the patents, have been considered, upon practically the same evidence as to the same infringing devices, and with the same expert testimony, by the circuit court in the Third circuit, in the case of Hutter v. Broome, 114 Fed. 655. *191After a careful examination of the patents, defendants’ evidence,…