Edison v. American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Suit for infringement of reissued letters patent No. 12,038, division B (original No. 589,168), for a kinetoscopic: film, granted to Thomas A. Edison September 30, 1902. On demurrer to bill.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
The bill charges infringement of complainant’s reissue patent No. 12,038, .division B, issued September 30, 1902, which is one of two divisions of the original patent, dated August 31, 1897. The application for the reissue was dated July 18,• 1902. The defendant demurs to the bill for want of equity, and claims specifically that the reissued patent is void, being for a different invention than that described in the original patent. Attached to the demurrer is what purports to be a complete copy of the original patent upon which the reissue is founded. Complainant…
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