Legal Opinion
Fries v. Leeming
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern New York
Decided August 12, 1904Published
In Equity. This cause comes here upon pleadings and proofs. It is the usual suit in equity for infringement of letters patent No. 604,191, May 17, 1898, to P. P. Monnet, for improvements in vessels for containing and administering volatile liquids.
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The application was filed August 8,1896, but it took the place of a similar application then abandoned, which carries the date back to March 6, 1895, when the earlier application was filed. The specification states that the invention—
“has reference to vessels for containing and administering volatile liquids, and particularly chloride of ethyl, chloride of methyl, and other liquids of a very volatile nature; and its objects are to manufacture vessels in which such liquids can be conveniently carried, which will preserve them without alteration, which can be conveniently…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Briggs v. DuellCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1899