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FEDERAL REPORTER.
description of the invention, as patented, as will apprise the court of its nature and character, and the particulars in which the improvement consists. This may be done by a full and accurate description in the pleader's own language, care being taken not to depart from the legal effect of the language of the patent, or by employing the language of the specification, or by a reference to and profert of the patent. The last-named course is the usual and most convenient one. The bare averment that the design was "a design for a curtain and loop" is not sufficient. The demuner is allowed, with leave to amend.
THOMPSON
v.
HALL
and others.·
(Oireuit Oourt, E. D. NeW York. July 24,1885.)
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PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS.
Upon 8 full consideration of the evidence in this case, luld, that Moses C. Johnson was not the first inventor of the combination described in the patent No. 282,975, of October 5,1880, to Henry G. Thompson, 8S assignee of Johnson.
8. SAME.
The decision of this case turned on a question of time, as to when 8 certain model was made, and, the evidence showing it to have been made at a period subsequent to that alleged by plaintiff, it was held that his assignor was not the first inventor of the improvements claimed by the patent.
In Equity. Horace Barnard, for complainant. Amos Broadnax and J. Edgar Bull, for defendants.. BENEDICT, J. This action is founded upon letters patent No. 232,975, dated October 5, 1880, issued to Henry G. ']'hompson, assignee of Moses C. Johnson, for an improvement in cutting.pliers. The bill charges infringement, and prays for damages and an injunction. The question at issue is whether the combination described in the plaintiff's patent was invented by Moses C. Johnson while an employe of a corporation styled "The Interchangeable Tool Company," which corporation was engaged in the manufacture of cutting-pliers under a patent issued to the defendant Hall, then the president of that corporation. In support of the averment that Moses C. Johnson was the first inventor of the combination in question the plaintiff produces So model, known in the case as "Defendants' Exhibit C," which model embodies the invention in question, and was made, as the plaintiff has sought to prove, while Johnson was in the employ of the Interchangeable Tool Company. On the other hand, the defendants assert, and have sought to prove, that this model was not made by Johnson while eInployed by the Interchangeable Tool Company, but after JohnlReported by Oharles G.Linthicum, Esq., of the Chicago bar.
BRADLEY &: HUBBARD
CO. 'II. CHARLES PARKER CO.
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son had been discharged from that employment, and for the purpose ot supporting a fraudulent claim to an invention really discovered the defendant Hall, put forth for the first time by Johnson after he had been discharged from the service of the Interchangeable Tool Company. In one aspect the decision of the case depends upon a question of time; that is to say, whether this model, (Exhibit C,) composed of brass and iron, was made when Johnson says it was, while he was a. workman for Hall's company, or at a date subsequent to Hall's discharge of Johnson. Upon this question much testimony has been taken on both sides. Upon a full consideration of all the evidence my conclusion is .that Exhibit C was not made when Johnson says it was, but subsequent to Johnson's leaving the employment of the InterchangeableTool Company, and that Moses C. Johnson was not the first inventor of the combination described in the patent issuell to the plaintiff as assignee of Johnson. There must therefore be a decree dismissing the bill, with costs.
BRADLEY & HUBBARD MANUF'G Co. 1.
'V.
CHARLES PARKER CO.l
(Oi'l'cuit OOU'I't, D. Oonnecticut. December 29, 1885.) PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS-CONSTRUCTION OJ!' CLAIM:.
Peculiarities of construction will not be construed to be distinctive features of claims, in order to sustain their validity, where neither the specification nor claims suggest that such peculiarities are a distinctive feature of the invention. ·
A new mechanical feature of the device was shown in the drawings, but it was not described or claimed. Held, in view of the omission, that the patent stated nothing which the public did not already have. 8. BAME. The claims of reissued letters patent No. 7,628, of April 24, 1877, to the com· plainant, as assignee of John A. Evarts, for an improvement in extension lamp fixtures, cover nothing new, and the patent is therefore defective.
2.
.sAME-MATTER SHOWN, BUT NOT CLAIMED.
In Equity. Chas. E. Mitchell, O. 1:1. Platt, and John S. Beach, for plaintiff. Charles R. Ingersoll, for defendant. SHIPMAN, J. This is a bill in equity to restrain the defendant from the infringement of reissued letters patent No. 7,62l:l, applied for April 12, 1877, and granted April 24, 1877, to the complainant, as assignee of John A. Evarts, for an improved extension lamp fixture. The original patent was dated October 81, 1876. As the decision of this case depends, in my opinion, upon the nature of the Evarts invention, as described and claimed in the reissued letters patent, I quote the entire descriptive portion of the specification as follows: 1 Reported
by Charles E. Linthicum, Esq., of the Chicago bar.