Legal Opinion

American Sulphite Pulp Co. v. Hinckley Fibre Co.

District Court, N.D. New York

Decided September 4, 1916Published

In Equity. Suit by the American Sulphite Pulp Company against the Hinckley Fibre Company. On motion for rehearing and to vacate decree entered.

1Opinion of the Court

RAY, District Judge.

The reissued letters patent in suit, to George F. Russell, No. 11,282, dated November 15, 1892, long since expired, and there can be no injunction.

In deciding this case (217 Fed. 57), attention was centered on the Panzl patent, and the question whether defendant was using that patented composition, or the Russell composition, and lost sight of the fact that defendant had used the Russell patented composition in certain cases and for certain lengths of time, and hence was an infringer.

The motion is granted, and the decree dismissing the bill vacated, but only one-half costs…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. American Sulphite Pulp Co. v. Hinckley Fibre Co.District Court, N.D. New York · 1914

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