Green v. American Soda-Fountain Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This was a suit in equity by the American Soda-Fountain Company against Robert M. Green and others, trading as Robert M. Green & Sons, for alleged infringement of a patent for a soda fountain.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This was a suit in equity by the American Soda-Fountain Company against Robert M. Green and others, trading as Robert M. Green & Sons, for alleged infringement of a patent for a soda fountain. The canse was first heard on exceptions to certain paragraphs of the complaint. 69 Fed. 333. Thereafter the circuit court sustained the second claim of the patent in issue, and entered a decree in favor of complainant. 75 Fed. 680. From this decree the defendants have appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
WALES, District Judge.
This is a suit for the infringement of the second claim of letters patent No. 414,272, granted November 5, 1889, to Theodore I. Witting, for “improvements in dispensing apparatus for soda water,” etc., and by him assigned to the American Soda-Fountain Company, the complainant below. The specification states that the “invention s * * consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter set forth, and pointed out in the claims.” 'Hie principal defenses were: First, that the combination of the second claim of the patent, in view of the prior…
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