Legal Opinion
Canan v. Pound Manuf'g Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
Decided March 10, 1885PublishedCited by 1 opinion
At Law.
1Opinion of the CourtWallace, J.
The defendant insists that the plaintiif’s patent is void because it is granted for the term of 17 years from the date of its issue, August 12, 1879, and is not limited upon its face to expire December 5, 1883, the time of the expiration of the plaintiif’s Canadian patent for the same invention. This position is founded on the language of section 4887, Bo\. St., which declares “that every patent granted for an invention which has been previously patented in a foreign country shall be bo limited as to expire at the same time with the foreign patent, or, if there be more than one, with the one…
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