Hillard v. Remington Typewriter Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Action for infringement of certain claims of patents numbered 554,874, dated February 18, 1896, and 580,281, dated April 6, 1897, both issued to the complainant herein and both relating to improvements in typewriting machines. Patent 580,281 was held valid and infringed in Hillard v. Fisher Book Typewriter Co. (C. C.) 151 Fed. 34, affirmed (C. C. A.) 159 Fed. 439, certiorari refused by Supreme Court February 24, 1908. No. 551,871 has never been adjudicated.
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, District Judge.
Both patents in suit relate to a small but essential part of typewriter mechanism, viz.: the escapement, and the connection between them is so close that, in so far as either patent is related to defendant’s alleged infringement, each reveals the other. The patent already adjudicated (580,281) may be conveniently called the “repulser” patent, and the other similarly denominated the “camming back” patent. This intimate connection between the two inventions is avowed and has been considered by the courts, and, although the repulser idea was fully disclosed in the earlier…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Hillard v. Fisher Book Typewriter Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1907
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- Schnell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1948