Gottfried v. Conrad Seipp Brewing Co.

Blodgett, D. J.

This is a bill to recover damages for the alleged infringement of a patent issued on the third of May, 1864, to the complainants for an improvement in pitching the inside of barrels. *323Two defences are set up: First, that the patent is void for want of novelty; and, second, that the defendant does not infringe. This patent has been before this court and the United States circuit court for the eastern district of Wisconsin, and nearly all the testimony in this record, on the question of novelty, was fully discussed and passed upon in those cases. I do not propose to re-examine the…