United States Credit System Co. v. American Credit Indemnity Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Iu Equity. Bill by the United States Credit System Company, against the American Credit Indemnity Company for the infringement of letters patent Ho. 465,485, dated December 22, 1891, and granted to Levy Maybaum for means for securing against excessive losses for bad debts. Heard on demurrer to the bill.
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Iu Equity. Bill by the United States Credit System Company, against the American Credit Indemnity Company for the infringement of letters patent Ho. 465,485, dated December 22, 1891, and granted to Levy Maybaum for means for securing against excessive losses for bad debts. Heard on demurrer to the bill. In a prior suit between the same parties upon this patent, the circuit court for the northern district of Illinois also sustained a demurrer to the bill for want of patentable invention. See 51 Fed. Rep. 751, where a full description of the alleged invention, accompanied by cuts showing the…
1Opinion of the Court
WHEELER, District Judge.
This bill is brought upon letters patent Ho. 465,485, dated December 22, 1891, and granted to Levy Maybaum, assignor to the plaintiff, for “means for securing against excessive losses for bad debts,” makes profert of them, and is demurred to. As the patent contains a grant under the constitution and laws of the United States “to the patentee, his heirs or assigns, for the term of seventeen years, of the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the invention or discovery throughout the.United States and the territories thereof,” and the bill alleges infringement, the…
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