Rogers Typograph Co. v. Mergenthaler Linotype Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. This was a bill by the Mergenthaler Linotype Company against the Rogers Typograpli Company for an injunction. There was a decree for complainant in the court below, from which decree respondent appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
ACHESON, Circuit Judge.
This suit was upon two letters patent of the Dinted States granted to Ottmar Mergenthaler, — No. 313,22d, dated March 3, 1885, and No. 317,828, dated May 12, 1885. The inventions relate to a machine for producing printing bars. Each patent describes and shows mechanisms whereby matrices, in any desired association of characters, are assembled in a line, such line of matrices brought into proper relation with a mold of the size required for a line of type of predetermined length, and a cast made in the mold, forming a printing bar bearing in relief the characters…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Morley Sewing MacHine Co. v. LancasterSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- Mergenthaler Linotype Co. v. Press Pub. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1893
- Rogers Typographic Co. v. Mergenthaler Linotype Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey · 1893
3Cited by1 opinion
- Lamson Consol. Stoke Service Co. v. HillmanCourt of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1903