The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-11-18

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EORPEDOES.
THE RO8EnTo
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RED PLADlN0 MILL,
eernsv esrins 80 sssena ssressA :
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+ y1zusvnl1 PA:
Owing . n. large and increasing demand fur the
H,bes1s' Torpedoes, and the late decision Of the
COMMISSIONS Of Patents In refusing to VIM. Reed
paisn:; sns tas decision Of JudgS n z; & Gre % sgs
the price Of their Torpedoes
.rwgNri PER CENT.
70 that every Operator can afford ,O'uy . Torp<do
before abandoning Well
rho following Ia the decision rendered by Judge
Ories on the twenty-eecond (3) day of September,
1e,0 In the United States Circuit Court at Phladel.
Keller q New ss1sa Eses: s:: a
vimcs Of Pittsburgh, fos defendants, and George
Harding OF Philadelphia, and George II. Chrisiy, Il
fitisburgh, for plaintiff.
OPINION OF JUDGE GRIER
A: write With difficulty can only state the con
cIuscus 70 which my mind has come after carsin::
The complainant has exhibited . patent dated
18th q April, 1885, This Is prima fsce evidence Of
goe4 title, ard puts on tn. respondents the bur.
Inesd not repeat ny remarks inthe case u Good.
s, y :s. Day w: SS! RsE & but
A. the infringement Of the patent IN admit ted
the only question will be to the validity Of com
plainants patent Of April = is6s.
practice" and after repeated experiments that the
complainant succeeded in overcoming he prejudice
and ignorance Of the people On the subject, and
er he had established it, great utility and value
.pit. q snesr; snd SONS, we're completely sue. '
ments on the same subject and wn1 unsucceesful.
imagined that he had the hest right to theinvention,
and after purchasing one or more complainant's tor
Tor q patent for substantially tho ssme combi~s.
lions Of devices and machine contained IN complain.
ants patent On the 18th Of the same month the
corporation called "The Reed Torpedo COMPANY. -
for the purpose Of pirating the compainant's In.
vention, and sugpo!tng the expense Of litigation,
severed, even sfter the preliminary injunction very
properly granted by the District Judge.
Let decree he entered for complainant for Q Der.
t3K0
On account according to the prayer Of The bill.
4. G. 0RIER, Judge.
NorE.-The passage referred to bv Judge Grier in
his former decision, Wallace, p 800, adopted e
applicable to this case was NJ follows:
at 10 usually the case, when any valuable discov.
Gy is uade, or any new machine Of great utility is
invented, that the attention Of the public has been
turned TO thatsuhjeet previously, and that many
persons have heen making researches and expert.
insnts. Philosophers and meehanicians may have
monanr0 antiCiDated in THAR snor,,t sttcca
the possibility or probability Of such discovery or
invention; many experiments have been successful.
y nted, coming WY near. yet falling short OF the
desired result. They have produced nothing bepe.
ncial. The invention when perfected may truly be
men ., not only by the inventor, hut By many 9th.
Ors. He may have profted Indirectly bv the unsuc.
csssful experiments and failures Of others, but It
gives them no right to claim share Of the honor Of
the profit Of the successful inventor 1t is when
spcculstion has been reduced to practice, when ex
pertinent has resulted in discovery and when that
discovery has been perfected by patient ana contin
ued experiments, when some new compound, art
Uauufacture. or machine has besn thus produced
which 70 useful to public that the party making
"And yet when genius and patient perseverance,
have at length succeeded, in spite Of eneers and
ee0ds some valuable invention or Discovery how
seldom is II followed by reward Envy robs him
Of the honor, while speculat0rs, swindles, and nj
rates rob him Of the profits. Every unsuccessful
near making discovery now claims 1t. Every ons
who can invent an Improvement or vary its form
claims right to Iirsfs the original discovery We
need mot summons hoese, or Blanchard. or Wood.
worth 70 prove tst ts is the usual history Of eve
"The present caee16ds another chapter to this
long and uniform history."-2 Wallace, c. q. Re-.
D0sts p. 2o2