Bruce v. Marder

Wheelee, D. J.

This suit is brought upon letters patent No. 139,-365, dated May 27, 1873, granted to the orator for an improvement in printing types. The improvement consists in having types for figures cast tworthirds the width of the body, which is the height of the type, and with correspondingly larger faces, whereby the type can be more readily set, because they can be justified, as printers say, by two of the ordinary three-in-em spaces, and because the print is much more legible. The defences are want of patentability of invention and want of novelty. The claim in controversy of the…