Legal Opinion

Poppenhusen v. Falke

U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York

Decided June 13, 1861PublishedCited by 6 opinions

In equity. This was a motion [by Conrad Poppenhusen] for a preliminary injunction to restrain the defendants from infringing letters patent granted to Otto P. Meyer December 20, 1853 [No. 10,339], and April 4. 1854 [No. 10,741], for improved modes of treating caoutchouc, and other vulcauizable gums.

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In equity. This was a motion [by Conrad Poppenhusen] for a preliminary injunction to restrain the defendants from infringing letters patent granted to Otto P. Meyer December 20, 1853 [No. 10,339], and April 4. 1854 [No. 10,741], for improved modes of treating caoutchouc, and other vulcauizable gums. A report of a trial at law, and of a motion for a preliminary injunction, and for an attachment, founded upon those patents, will be found in the cases of Poppenhusen v. New York Gutta Percha Comb Co. [Cases Nos. 11,281, 11.2S3, and 11,282]. After the decision of the latter case, the patent was…

1Opinion of the Court

SRTPMAN, District Judge.

There is no occasion in the present stage of this case to enumerate in detail the allegations of this bill. Its object is to restrain the respondents, by injunction, from infringing the rights of the complainant, alleged to be secured to him by two patents for improved modes of treating caoutchouc and other vulcanizable gums, and for an account. One of the patents, denominated the “grease patent,” bears date December 20, 1853. The other, called the “tin foil patent,” is dated April 4, 1854, but reissued August 10, 1S59. The bill is founded upon the "grease patent,” and…

2Cited by6 opinions

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