Crescent Brewing Co. v. Gottfried
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA. This was a suit in equity, brought in March, 1881, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana,by Matthew .Gottfried against the Crescent Brewing Company, founded on the alleged infringement by the defendant of let-' ters patent No. 42,580, granted May 3d, 1864, to J. F. T. Holbeck and Matthew Gottfried, for an “ improved mode of pitching barrels.”
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF INDIANA. This was a suit in equity, brought in March, 1881, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana,by Matthew .Gottfried against the Crescent Brewing Company, founded on the alleged infringement by the defendant of let-' ters patent No. 42,580, granted May 3d, 1864, to J. F. T. Holbeck and Matthew Gottfried, for an “ improved mode of pitching barrels.” The specification, claims, and drawings of the patent were as follows: “ Be it known that we, J. F. Th. Holbeck and Matthew Gottfried, both of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford
There has been, as appears by the reports, a good deal of litigation as to this patent.
In June, 1878, in Gottfried v. Bartholomae, 3 Ban. & Ard. 308, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois, Judge Blodgett held the patent to be valid. The only anticipating devices which appear to have been considered by him were the Davison & Symington patent, of November, 1813, and the Neilson and various other hot-air blasts in smelting furnaces.
The patent was sustained by the decision of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin,…
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