Jenner v. Bowen
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
■ Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western Division of the Southern District of Ohio.
1Opinion of the Court
PURTON, Circuit Judge.
This is a bill to enjoin infringement of a patent issued to Charles G. Jenner, as guardian for Charles G. Biedinger, an insane person. The patent is numbered 639,395, and is for certain improvements in machines for making bottle wrappers. The principal defense, and the only one which seems to have any .very solid foundation, is that the patented invention was in public use for more than two years prior to the date of the application for a patent. We come at once to a consideration of this defense.
The application upon which the patent issued was filed November 20, 1895.…
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