Bernardin v. Northall
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana
This was a hill in equity, under Rev. St. § 4915, by Alfred L. Bernardin against William H. Northall and John S. Seymour, commissioner of patents, to review the decision of the commissioner in an interference case, and determine the complainant’s alleged right to a patent for a bottle-sealing device.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity by the complainant, who alleges that he was the true, original, and sole inventor of a new and useful improvement in bottle-sealing devices, known as the “beaded sealing cap,” or “beaded cap,” which invention was not known or used by others in this country, and not patented, or described in any printed publication, in this or any foreign country, before Ms invention or discovery thereof, and which had not been in public use or on sale in the United States for more than two years prior to his application for a patent therefor; that William H.…
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