Coburn v. Schroeder

Wheeler, D. J.

This suit is brought upon letters patent re-issued No. 8,091, granted to the orators as assignees of the defendants John L. Stevens and George W. Stevens, dated February 19, 1878, for an improvement in eases for transporting eggs, for which original letters patent. No. 62,878, dated February 26, 1867, were granted to the ássignors. The defences are that the re-issue is for a different invention from that in the original patent; that the patentees were not the original and first inventors of this improvement, because it was known to and used by others than either of them before…