American Wood-Paper Co. v. Fibre Disintegrating Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Cross Appeals from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of New York. The preceding case has treated somewhat of the manufacture of paper; though that case had reference chiefly to a manufacture from rags, and-by mechanical means. The present case concerns the manufacture of paper; though this ease relates more to manufacture from wood, &c., and by chemical agencies.
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Cross Appeals from the Circuit Court for the Eastern District of New York. The preceding case has treated somewhat of the manufacture of paper; though that case had reference chiefly to a manufacture from rags, and-by mechanical means. The present case concerns the manufacture of paper; though this ease relates more to manufacture from wood, &c., and by chemical agencies. As most persons know, the materials out of which paper is made, have to be reduced in the paper-mill, before the paper is formed, into what is known as pulp. This pulp, whether obtained from wood or other vegetable…
1Opinion of the Court
Mi’. Justice STRONG
delivered the opinion of the court.
Though the two reissued patents (Nos. 1448 and 1449 * ) were granted on the same day and to the same patentees, and though they are both substitutes for the one original patent granted July 18th, 1854, antedated August 19th, 1858, they are to be carefully distinguished one from the other. The first (No. 1448) is a patent for a product or a manufacture, and not for any process by which the product may be obtained. The second (No. 1449) is for a process and not for its product. It is quite obvious that a manufacture, or a product of a…
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