Paine Metallic Packing Co. v. Bridgeport Metallic Packing Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut
In Equity. Suit lor infringement of letters patent No. 774,490, for metallic ring packing, granted to Jedediah C. Paine November 8, 1904. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
PEATT, District Judge.
This court dealt with substantially the same mailer which is now at issue when it decided the Blake & Johnson Case (C. C.) 161 Eed. 134. The only defense then urged was non-infringement, and the validity of the patent was practically conceded. The prior art was touched upon very lightly, and for no other purpose than to obtain light as to what the patentee meant when he used in his claims the words “cut solely on tangential lines,” which was the turning point of the former issue. Now the patent is vigorously attacked, and the situation demands an exhaustive examination…
2Cited by1 opinion
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