American Bell Tel. Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a bill by the United States against the American Bell Telephone Company and Emile Berliner to cancel patent No. 463,569, for combined telegraph and telephone. The circuit court entered a decree for the cancellation of the patent (65 Fed. 86), and the respondents appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This is a bill in equity, filed February 9, 1893, sigued in behalf of the United States by its attorney general, against the American Bell Telephone Company and Emile Berliner, containing a prayer in the alternative touching patent issued November 17, 1891, numbered 463,569, to the American Bell Telephone Company, as assignee of Berliner. The prayer is that the patent he in all things recalled, repealed, and decreed absolutely null, but that, if the patent is not deserving to be wholly repealed' but is repealable in part, a decree be made repealing only such parts as the…
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