Freeman v. Asmus
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL EROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OE PENNSYLVANIA. The court stated the case as follows : This is a suit in equity, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, by George Asmus against Margaret C. Freeman, founded on the alleged infringement of reissued letters patent No. 3204, granted to said Asmus, November 24, 1868, on the surrender of original letters patent No. 70,447, granted to F.…
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APPEAL EROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OE THE UNITED STATES EOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OE PENNSYLVANIA. The court stated the case as follows : This is a suit in equity, brought in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, by George Asmus against Margaret C. Freeman, founded on the alleged infringement of reissued letters patent No. 3204, granted to said Asmus, November 24, 1868, on the surrender of original letters patent No. 70,447, granted to F. W. Liirmann, of Osnabruck, in Prussia, November 6, 1867, for an improvement in blast furnaces. On the 12th of…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatckfobd
■ As we are of opinion that the decree below must be reversed, because of the invalidity of the reissue, it is unnecessary to consider any other question.
The only claim of the- reissue which, it is. now contended, was infringed, is the first claim, which reads as follows: “ 1. A blast furnace with a closed breast, where the slag is discharged through an opening or openings cooled by water, substantially as set forth.” Claims 2 to 7, inclusive, of the reissue are substantially in the same language as claims 1 to 6 of the original. Claim 1 in the reissue is entirely new, and .it is not…
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