New Process Fermentation Co. v. Maus

Citations

• 122 U.S. 413
• 7 S. Ct. 1304
• 30 L. Ed. 1193
• 1887 U.S. LEXIS 2120

Syllabus

<p>Claim 3 of letters-patent No. 215,679, granted to George Bartholomae, as assignee of Leonard Meller and Edmund Hofmann, as inventors, May 20, 1879, for an “ improvement in processes for making beer,” namely, “ 3. The process of preparing and preserving beer for the market, which consists in holding it under controllable pressure of carbonic acid gas from the beginning of the kraeusen stage until such time as it is transferred to kegs and bunged, substantially as described,” is a valid claim to the process it purports to cover.</p> <p>The state of the art of brewing beer, so far as it concerns the invention of the patentees, explained.</p>