Milligan v. Lalance & Grosjean Manuf'g Co.

The plaintiff was in the employ of the defendant, and made what they supposed to be an invention of a new and patentable improvement in sheet-metal vessels for culinary purposes, consisting of a shoulder around the inside of the upper edge to support the lid. He assigned it to the defendant to procure a patent upon it and practice it. The defendant applied for a patent; the application was rejected for want of novelty; tlio solicitor amended it to include an inclosed wire at the extreme edge, and the patent-No. 189,250, dated April 3, 1877, was granted for such a vessel, having such shoulder,…