McCormick v. Talcott
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois, sitting as a court of equity. The bill which was filed by McCormick alleged that the defendants in error had infringed his patent for a reaping machine ; called upon them for an account, and prayed for an injunction. The defendants denied the infringement, and claimed a right to construct their machines under letters patent granted to John H. Manny.
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This was an appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of Illinois, sitting as a court of equity. The bill which was filed by McCormick alleged that the defendants in error had infringed his patent for a reaping machine ; called upon them for an account, and prayed for an injunction. The defendants denied the infringement, and claimed a right to construct their machines under letters patent granted to John H. Manny. The Circuit Court dismissed the bill, and McCormick appealed to this court. McCormick’s patents had been twice before this court, as will be…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Grier
The bill charges the defendants with infringing two several patents granted to complainant, for improvements in the machine known as McCormick’s Reaper. One of these patents bears date the 31st of January, 1845; the other on the 24th of May, 1853, being the, reissue of a previous one, dated 23d of October, 1847. The -defendants are charged with infringing the fourth and fifth claims of the patent of 1845, and the second' claim of the reissued patent of 1853.
I. The first infringement charged is that of the divider, or that part of the reaping machine which is defined “as an ar*404rangement, or…
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