A. B. Dick Co. v. Wichelman
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Appeal from a decree of the circuit court (106 Fed. 037), which dismissed a bill in equity brought by the owner of letters patent No. 562,690, applied for December 27, 1887, and issued on June 23, 1896, to Albert D. Dick, assignor to the complainant, for an improved means for producing - duplicating stencils.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Appeal from a decree of the circuit court (106 Fed. 037), which dismissed a bill in equity brought by the owner of letters patent No. 562,690, applied for December 27, 1887, and issued on June 23, 1896, to Albert D. Dick, assignor to the complainant, for an improved means for producing - duplicating stencils. The bill was founded upon an infringement of the first three claims of the patent, and was dismissed on account of their invalidity.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.
On February 7, 1888, upon an application filed May 20, 1886, letters patent No. 377,706, for a prepared sheet for stencils, were issued to John Broderick. The present complainant became the owner of the patent, and it came before Ihis court for examination in a bill In equity against the present defendant for an alleged infringement of its three claims, and was sus-*962tamed. 31 C. C. A. 530, 88 Fed. 264. The opinion of the court, after describing the waxed stencil sheets for duplicating handwrit-ings that were in use before the date of the Broderick invention, describes…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Wickelman v. A. B. Dick Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1898
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- A. B. Dick Co. v. Duplicating Machine & Supply Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1934