Perfection Disappearing Bed Co. v. Murphy Wall Bed Co.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Second Division of the Northern District of California; William C. Van Fleet, Judge. _ _ Suit in equity by the Murphy Wall Bed Company and the Marshall & Stearns Company against the Perfection Disappearing Bed Company, Incorporated, and others. Decree for complainants, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The appellants appeal from a decree wherein they were adjudged to have infringed claims 9, 10, 13, and 14 of reissue letters patent No. 13,428, issued to Wm. L. Murphy on April 13, 1912, for a “disappearing bed,” and claim 1 of patent No. 1.,-068,806,, issued to Murphy on July 29, 1913, for “disappearing bed.”
Claims 13 and 14 of the reissue letters patent were upon the reissue added to the original patent. Hie appellants contend that those claims are void for failure to comply with section 4916, Rev. Stat. (Comp. St. § 9461), which provides:
“Whenever any patent is…
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