Whipple v. Miner

The complainant alleges that he was the first inventor of a certain improvement in horseshoe nails; that he applied for a patent for the improvement, and, pending his application, the defendant Miner made a similar application, and, upon an interference, the office decided in favor of Miner, and is about to issue to him a patent. The hill prays that the complainant “may he adjudged to be entitled, according to law, to receive a patent for his invention,” as provided by Eev. St. § 4915, and that the defendant Miner may be restrained in the mean time from receiving his patent.

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