Underwood Typewriter Co. v. Victor Typewriter Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Underwood Typewriter Company against the Victor Typewriter Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
NOYES, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit to restrain the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 559,345 issued to Franz X. Wagner, •assignee, on April 28, 1906, for an improvement in typewriting machines. The complainant is the present owner of the patent.
The defenses are:(1) Invalidity.(2) Noninfringement.
The patent relates to “front-strike” typewriters having movable carriages in which- are mounted platens or paper rollers traveling therewith to receive the impact of type-bars at proper intervals under the control of an escapement mechanism. In a typewriter of this kind the type-bars carry…
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