Case ID: f_130/html/0549-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

E. REGENSBERG & SONS v. AMERICAN EXCH. CIGAR CO.
    (Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
    May 12, 1904.)
    1. Patents — Validity—Determining- Question on Demubeeb.
    A patent will not be adjudged void on demurrer, where the precise points raised have been previously decided in other suits in the district in favor of the complainant.
    In Equity. Suit for infringement of patent. On demurrer to bill.
    Briesen & Knauth, for complainant.
    Holm & Smith, for defendant.
   HOLT, District Judge.

If the points raised by this demurrer had never been passed upon before, I should consider it a serious question whether the patent was not void for lack of invention. Conley v. Marum (C. C.) 83 Fed. 309. But, as the precise questions have been decided on demurrer by Judge Wallace in suits brought by these complainants against other cigar companies, I think that his decision should be followed in this case.

Demurrer overruled, with leave to defendant to answer within 20 days on payment of costs.