Commercial Manufacturing Co. v. Fairbank Canning Co.

Citations

• 135 U.S. 176
• 10 S. Ct. 718
• 34 L. Ed. 88
• 1890 U.S. LEXIS 2010

Syllabus

<p>Reissued letters patent No. 10,137, granted June 13,1882, to the Commercial Manufacturing Company, Consolidated,' for an improvement in treating animal fats, the original patent, No. 146,012, having been granted December 30, 1873j to Hippolyte Mége, ás inventor, expired by the expiration .in April, 18ÍT6, of a Bavarian patent, and in May, 1876, of an Austrian , patent, granted'to Mége for the same invention.</p> <p>The question of the identity of the United States patent with the Bavarian ' and the Austrian patents, considered.</p>