Legal Opinion

Cochrane v. Badische Anilin & Soda Fabrik

Supreme Court of the United States

Decided April 14, 1884No. 282PublishedCited by 76 opinions

APPEAL from the circuit court of the united states for THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was a suit in equity for the alleged infringement of a patent for improvement in dyes from anthracine. The nature of the invention, the extent of the claims, and the facts which went to show the infringement or to affect the validity of the patent are fully brought out in the opinion of the court, from the large mass of testimony in the record.

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APPEAL from the circuit court of the united states for THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was a suit in equity for the alleged infringement of a patent for improvement in dyes from anthracine. The nature of the invention, the extent of the claims, and the facts which went to show the infringement or to affect the validity of the patent are fully brought out in the opinion of the court, from the large mass of testimony in the record. Judgment below sustaining the validity of the patent, from which the alleged infringers appealed.

1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchford

This is a suit in equity, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, by Badische Anilin and Soda Fabrik, a corporation organized under the laws-of the Grand Duchy of Baden, in the Empire of Germany, against th'e appellants, for the infringement of reissued letters patent No. 4,321, granted to Charles Graebe, of Frankfort-on-the-Main, and Charles Liebermann, of Berlin, Prussia, April 4th, 1871, for an “improvement in dyes 'or coloring matter from anthracine.” The original patent, No. 95,4.65, was granted to the same persons, October 5th, 1869, for…

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