Olin v. Timken

Syllabus

<p>The fifth claim in reissued letters patent No. 9542, granted January 25i 1881, to Joseph Tilton arid Rufus M. Stivers for a spring for vehicles? on the. surrender of letters patent No. 157,430’, dated December 1, 1874, is an expansion of the invention described in the original patent, and the reissue is thus invalidated. , . -</p> <p>Letters patent No.-197,689, granted November 27, 1877, to Henry Timken for improvement in carriage springs, are void for want of patentable novelty in the invention so patented.</p> <p>Letters patent No. 239,850, granted April 5, 1881, to Cyrus W. Saladee for an improvement in spring-supports for vehicles, wagon-seats, etc., relate to a device which was anticipated by another invention made more than two years prior to the application for that patent, and reduced to practice prior to that application, and by other inventions named in the opinion of the court, and are void for want of patentable novelty.</p>