Garneau v. Dozier
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. Joseph Garneau brought his bill of complaint against James Dozier and others. It is founded upon two letters-patent, the first being a reissue granted to Hosea Ball on the fourteenth day of June, 1870, and extended for seven years from Sept¡ 23, -1870. The original letters were granted to..
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Missouri. Joseph Garneau brought his bill of complaint against James Dozier and others. It is founded upon two letters-patent, the first being a reissue granted to Hosea Ball on the fourteenth day of June, 1870, and extended for seven years from Sept¡ 23, -1870. The original letters were granted to.. Ball Sept. 23, 1856, for an alleged “ new and useful improvement in ovens,” and were surrendered and reissued^ Oct. 12, 1869, and again June 14, 1870. The second letters set forth in the bill were granted to Mary Ann…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr,. Justice Strong
delivered the opinion of the court.
Among the defences set up in the answer of the defendants is one that strikes at the validity of the reissue of the Ball patent. It.is insisted that the reissue is not for the same invention as- that for which- the original patent was granted, but is “ for more and other matters and things than those of which he- was the original and first inventor, and more than were described or included in the specification attached to said original patent granted to him, or shown in the drawing attached, thereto, or in the model forming part of the…
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