Hill v. Whitcomb
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
[Bill in equity to restrain alleged infringement of an exclusive right of the complainants [Wade H. Hill and others] under letters-patent for improvements in printing-presses, granted Edwin Allen Oct 22, 1867 [No. 70,063], Nov. 12, 1867 [No. 70,773], and Feb. 4,1868 [No. 73,943], and for an account.
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[Bill in equity to restrain alleged infringement of an exclusive right of the complainants [Wade H. Hill and others] under letters-patent for improvements in printing-presses, granted Edwin Allen Oct 22, 1867 [No. 70,063], Nov. 12, 1867 [No. 70,773], and Feb. 4,1868 [No. 73,943], and for an account. The Allen Manufacturing Company, the owner of the patents, granted to the complainants the exclusive right to use, rent, and vend, presses containing the patented improvements, in the county of Worcester, Massachusetts, and state of Rhode Island; and covenanted to protect and defend the…
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPLEY, Circuit Judge.
The Allen Manufacturing Company, being the owners of the rights secured by three different letters-patent of the United States, for the inventions of Edwin Allen in improvements in printing-presses. on the 1st of February, 1871, entered into a certain contract with the complainants. This bill is brought to enforce the rights of the complainants under that contract.
The contract begins with a recital that the Allen Manufacturing Company are the owners of a patent automatic envelope-printing press. In fact, they were then manufacturing a printing-press which they styled a…
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