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14 F. 112

Lorillard v. McAlpin

United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York · decided 1882-02-28

<p>Patents for- Inventions—Reissue. -</p> <p>A claim in a reissue cannot be extended so as to embrace an invention not specified in the original.</p>

2 counsel of record

Decided 1882-02-28

¶1Patents for- Inventions—Reissue. -

¶2A claim in a reissue cannot be extended so as to embrace an invention not specified in the original.

¶3Gifford é Gifforcl, for plaintiffs.

¶4B. F. .Thurston and '3. A. Duncan, for defendants.

¶5Blatchford, C. J.

¶6In view of the decision in James v. Campbell, 3 Morr. Trans. 439, there is so much doubt as to the validity of the reissue [“Improvement in Plug Tobacco,” granted, to Charles Siedler, October 24, 1876,] in this case, if construed, in regard to claims 1, 3, and 4, as covering labels not put under wrappers, that those claims must-be construed, for the purposes of this motion, as not extending to labels not under wrappers. That being so, the defendants do not infringe.

¶7The motion is denied.

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