Thacher v. Transit Const. Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Equity. Suit by Edwin Thacher against the Transit Construction Company.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, District Judge.
This case arises on final hearing on pleadings and proofs, wherein the bill of complaint charges infringement of letters patent of the United States, No. 617,615, issued to' Edwin Thacher on January 10, 1899, for new and useful improvements in concrete arches. The bill asks for an injunction and an accounting. The defense is that the patent, if construed broadly, so as to include the defendant’s structure, lacks patentable novelty, in view of the prior art, and if strictly construed, as the defendant insists it should be by reason of the prior art, the proceedings in…
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