Milwaukee Carving Co. v. Brunswick-Balke Collender Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. This appeal is from a decree dismissing the bill of the Milwaukee Carving-Company for want of equity.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. This appeal is from a decree dismissing the bill of the Milwaukee Carving-Company for want of equity. The bill alleges ownership of two letters-patent for improvement in carving machines, issued to T. L. Smith and P. W. Post — one, No. 443,802, dated December 30, 1890, and the other, No. 447,796, dated March 10, 1891 — and infringement by the defendant, the-Brunswick-Balke Collender Company. The devices described in the patents are machines to produce carving by duplication of a…
1Opinion of the CourtSeaman, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The appellant’s bill alleges ownership and infringement of two letters patent, Nos. 443,802 and 447,796, both issued to Thomas E. Smith and. Paul W. Post, as inventors, and the answer raises the issue of title.. *182Evidence of title rests on an instrument purporting to be made by the patentees, bearing date February 6, 1888, and recorded in the Patent Office February 24, 1888, which is not printed in the transcript of record, but is referred to and expressly offered as testimony on behalf of the appellant, and a copy appears subsequently certified from the…
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