Columbia Chemical Works v. Rutherford
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York
In Equity. Bill by tbe Columbia Chemical Works against James Rutherford and Almon W. Barnes for infringement of patents. Decree for complainant.
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
This is an equity suit for infringement of three letters patent for ammoniacal detergent compounds and the process of malting the same. These patents are numbered, respectively, '267,455, 382,322 . and 382,323. They, were all granted to Charles C. Parsons and are now owned by the complainant. Parsons sought to make a commercial detergent of which ammonia should be a component part. Ammonia, as is well known, is exceedingly volatile. Attempts had previously been made to use it for soap but without success. The difficulty was to make the ammonia stay. It was this problem…
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