Paillard v. Bruno

The bill of complaint alleges infringement by the defendant of letters patent of the United States of the date of March 23, 1875, granted to Charles Paillard for an improvement in music-boxes. The plea of the defendant alleges, in substance, that, prior to the grant of the patent in suit, the invention which is the subject of the patent had been patented by Paillard, in England, by letters patent of the date of October 26, 1874, for the term of 14 years, which grant determined before the commission of the acts of infringement complained of, to-wit, ■October 26, 1877, by the failure of the…