Wagner Typewriter Co. v. Wyckoff, Seamans & Benedict
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. On appeal by the complainant from a decree of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York in favor of the defendant in a suit for infringement of two letters patent, granted to Josiah B. Gathright for improvements in typewriting machines.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. On appeal by the complainant from a decree of the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York in favor of the defendant in a suit for infringement of two letters patent, granted to Josiah B. Gathright for improvements in typewriting machines. The first of these, No. 4.36,916, was granted September 23, 1890; the application being-filed January 15,1889. The second, No. 452,268, was granted May 12, 1891; the application being filed October 17, 1890.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge.
This is an equity suit for the infringement of two letters patent, granted to Josiah B. Gathright, for improvements in type-writing machines.
First Gathright Patent.
The first of these patents, No. 436,916, relates to improvements in that class of machines which are provided with feed racks for moving a carriage to space between the letters of each line.
The specification describes the improvement as embodied in a Remington machine. The patentee says that prior to his invention, when the operator desired to do- tabulating work, it was necessary for him to advance the carriage…
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