American Steel & Wire Co. of New Jersey v. Denning Wire & Fence Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Iowa
In Equity. On final hearing. Suit for alleged infringement of claims 1 to 11, inclusivo, and 19, 27, and 35 of letters patent, No. 577,639, issued to Albert J. Bates, February 23, 1897, for a machine for making wire fence, which patent is now owned by the complainant.
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In Equity. On final hearing. Suit for alleged infringement of claims 1 to 11, inclusivo, and 19, 27, and 35 of letters patent, No. 577,639, issued to Albert J. Bates, February 23, 1897, for a machine for making wire fence, which patent is now owned by the complainant. Defense: That the several claims of the patent alleged to have been infringed are invalid (1) because they are for the functions only of certain mechanism, and are so broad as to include all devices or mechanisms for making a woven wire fence; (2) are but multiplications of the same device used in the barbed wire fence machines;…
1Opinion of the Court
REED, District Judge.
Congress has ena'cted, in substance, that any person who has invented or discovered any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and use*110ful improvements thereof, not known or used by others before his invention or discovery, may, upon compliance with the law, obtain a patent therefor; that before he shall receive such patent he shall make written application for the same, and file therewith in the Patent Office a written description of the invention, and of the manner of making and using it, in such full, clear, and exact terms as to…
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