Wallace v. Holmes
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut
2 [Final hearing on pleadings and proofs. [Suit brought upon letters patent [No. 49,984], for an “improvement in lamps.” granted to Michael H. Collins, September 19, 1865, and assigned to complainants. [The facts of the case and the claims of the patent are set forth in the opinion, and will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which A represents the lamp, B the wick-tube, E the chimney, D the chimney-rest and F the cone or deflector, provided around…
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2 [Final hearing on pleadings and proofs. [Suit brought upon letters patent [No. 49,984], for an “improvement in lamps.” granted to Michael H. Collins, September 19, 1865, and assigned to complainants. [The facts of the case and the claims of the patent are set forth in the opinion, and will be understood by reference to the accompanying drawing, in which A represents the lamp, B the wick-tube, E the chimney, D the chimney-rest and F the cone or deflector, provided around its upper edge with peripheral springs, or having the edge cut into radial slits, h, the function of which is to press…
1Opinion of the Court
WOODRUFF, Circuit Judge.
The complainants sue, as the assignees and owners of letters patent granted September 19th, 1865, to Michael H. Collins, for an improvement in lamps for an alleged infringement by the defendants, praying an injunction and an account of the gains and profits made by the defendants by the unlawful manufacture and sale of the invention so patented. The answer puts the complainants to proof of the patent, and of their title as assignees, denies that the defendants have infringed the patent, and alleges that, if the patent recited in the bill of complaint shall be construed…
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