Underwood Typewriter Co. v. Fox Typewriter Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Michigan
In Equity. Suit by the Underwood Typewriter Company against the Fox Typewriter Company. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, District Judge.
This suit is brought on account of the alleged infringement of two United States patents granted to Josiah B. Gathright on tabulating devices for typewriting machines. The numbers and dates of the patents are, respectively, 436,916, September 23, 1890, and 452,268, May 12, 1891. These patents will hereafter be referred to, respectively, as the first and second Gathright patents. In the early history of the typewriting art, in order to bring words and figures into accurate vertical columns, as required in invoices, statements of account, and other work of that kind, it…
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