Case ID: f_12/html/0221-03.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Mr. Justice Woods\n    ", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Patents — Reissues—Laches.
    Bantz v. Frantz.
    Appeal from tho circuit court of the United States for tho district of Kentucky. This case was determined in the supreme court of the United States on
    March 20, 1882,
   Mr. Justice Woods

delivering tho opinion of the court and affirming the judgment of the circuit court.

Where, under the original patent, suit could be maintained only against those who employed the combination embracing all the distinct contrivances described in Hie reissued patent, a reissue which claims each device separably is too broad, and consequently void. If any correction was desired it should have been applied for immediately — the right is abandoned and lost by unreasonable delay. Miller v. Bridgeport Brass Co. 3 Morr. Trans. 419, followed.