Imhaeuser v. Buerk
Supreme Court of the United States
This is a suit, commenced July 5, 1872, by Jacob E. Buerk against William Imhaeuser, Theodore Hahn, and Charles Keinath doing business as Imhaeuser & Co., for the alleged infringement by them of letters-patent No. 48,048, granted to him June 6, 1866, for an improvement in watchman’s time detectors. The drawings and specification of his letters are as. follows: — « No. 48,048. “ The Schedule referred to in these letters-patent and malcing part of the same.
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This is a suit, commenced July 5, 1872, by Jacob E. Buerk against William Imhaeuser, Theodore Hahn, and Charles Keinath doing business as Imhaeuser & Co., for the alleged infringement by them of letters-patent No. 48,048, granted to him June 6, 1866, for an improvement in watchman’s time detectors. The drawings and specification of his letters are as. follows: — « No. 48,048. “ The Schedule referred to in these letters-patent and malcing part of the same. “ To all whom it may concern : “ Be it known that I, Jacob E. Buerk, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Equivalents may be claimed by a patentee of an invention consisting of a combination of old elements or ingredients, as well as of any other valid patented improvement, provided the arrangement of the parts composing the invention is new, and will produce a new and useful result.
Such a patentee may doubtless invoke the doctrine of equivalents as against an infringer of the patent: but the term “ equivalent,” as applied to such an invention,. is special in its signification, and somewhat different from what is meant when the term is applied to an invention consisting of a new device or an…
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- Buerk v. ImhaeuserU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1876
- Buerk v. ValentineU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York · 1872
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