Wanamaker v. Enterprise Manuf'g Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In Equity. Bill by the Enterprise Manufacturing Company against John Wanamaker, as a seller of a meat-cutting device, for infringement of letters patent No. 271,398, issued January 30, 1883, to John G. Baker, for improvements in mechanism to cut up plastic or yielding substances.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. In Equity. Bill by the Enterprise Manufacturing Company against John Wanamaker, as a seller of a meat-cutting device, for infringement of letters patent No. 271,398, issued January 30, 1883, to John G. Baker, for improvements in mechanism to cut up plastic or yielding substances. The circuit court found that the first claim was valid, and that defendant infringed the same, but that he did not infringe the second claim, and accordingly entered a decree for infringement of the first claim. See 46 Fed.…
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
This suit was for infringement of claims 1 and 2 of patent Ho. 271,398, issued to John G-. Baker upon January 30, 1883, for an “improvement in mechanism to cut up plastic or yielding substances.” The circuit court decided that the second claim was not infringed, and therefore the first claim is the only one for consideration here. The defenses were and are that the patent is invalid; and that, even if valid, it is not infringed. This claim had been twice before the circuit court for the district of Connecticut, by which its validity was considered, — first on motion for…
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