Legal Opinion
Alexander Milburn Co. v. Davis-Bournonville Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided March 15, 1926No. 107PublishedCited by 229 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
This is a suit for the infringement of the plaintiff’s patent for an improvement in welding and cutting apparatus alleged to have been the invention of one Whit-ford. The suit embraced other matters but this is the only one material here. The defense is that Whitford was not the first inventor of the thing patented, and the answer gives notice that to prove the invalidity of the patent evidence will be offered that one Clifford invented the thing, his patent being referred to and identified. The application for the plaintiff’s patent was filed on March 4, 1911, and the patent was issued June…
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