J. H. Day Co. v. Mountain City Mill Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee; Edward T. Sanford, Judge. Suit by the J. H. Day Company against the Mountain City Mill Company and another. From a decree dismissing the bill (257 Fed. 561), plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
KNAPPEN, Circuit Judge.
Suit for infringement of United States patent to Ward, No. 865,461, September 10, 1907, and United States patent to Allison & Pinkney, No. 1,112,184, September 29, 1914, both relating to cracker-cutting machines. The District Judge found the claims of the Ward patent in suit (Nos. 1 to 9, both inclusive) void for anticipation, and that patentees were not the first and original inventors of the mechanism disclosed in the claims of the Allison & Pinkney patent in suit, viz. claims 1, and 2. This appeal is from a decree dismissing the bill.
[1] 1. The Ward Patent. In the…
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