Craig v. Smith
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Kansas. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Waite
Samuel F. Craig, the appellant, on the 2d of February, 1872, filed in the Circuit Court a bill in equity against Jacob S mith and George D. Hale, to enjoin them from using an improved well-tube, for which he claimed to have letters-patent from the United States bearing date June 11, 1867. They answered, attacking the validity of the letters-patent: 1, Because the patented invention had been described in a certain printed publication publicly circulated and distributed prior to his supposed invention; 2, because it had been anticipated by certain other persons whose names and places of…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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