Cameron Septic Tank Co. v. City of Knoxville
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF IOWA. • • The facts, which involve the construction of §§ 4884 and 4887, Rev. Stat., as affected by the Treaty of Brussels of 1900 and the effect of prior patents in foreign countries on the duration of an American patent, are stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Ma Justice McKenna
delivered the opinion of the court.
A bill in equity was brought by appellant as successor to the rights of an invention patented Under United States letters patent do Edwin Cameron et al. for a process and an apparatus for treating sewage, No. 634,423, dated October 3, 1899. The bill contained the usual allegations and prayed for an injunction to restrain appellee from the use of the invention. Appellee filed a plea to the bill in which it alleged that the invention had been previously patented in Great Britain by letters patent dated November 8, 1895, and that that patent…
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