The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1870-11-01

E,l1 ate decision OF the
E0Ik eiuaing TO VIM Reed
Judge Il. &. Grier sus.
they lave LOWERED
FORl PER i's CENT.
saitwtll.
le decision rendered by Jufsc
second (22) day OF September,
states Circuit Court at Philade.
argncd three days by Charles
rk, b. r. Lucas and s. A. Pur-
for deNen iants, and George
MA, and George u. Chrisiy, Of
CEO JUDGE GREER. .
ulty can only state the con
Vim lind has come after careful
IS exhibited q patent dated
his Is prima faciv evidence of
on the respondents the bur
patent Is void or worthless.
I. yremarks IN the case of Good
isaru'e oi decision Which ap-
ent of the patent Is admit ted,
go. Al will be as to the validity of com.
Slit Of April 2j, 1858.
n speculation had been reduced to
md after repeated experiments, that the
ant succeeded in overcoming he prejudice
Jrance Of the people on the subject, and
ding the public that his inventiou was useful;
I
d 'when his genius and patient perseverance, In
hte OF sncers and scOff.," were completely suc.
sssful that Reed, who had before made expert.
tents ON the same subject, and was unsuccessful.
agined that he had the best right to the Invention,
nd after purchasing one or more Complainant = tor
,sdOes. he applied on the list of Move tmber, 1857,
or patent for substantially the same cOinhinn
ions Of devices and urhinc contained in complain.
Ut's patent. On the 18th of the same month the
respondents formed themselves into q company or
corporation called "'rhe Reed Torpedo Company"
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vention, and supporting the expense of litigation,
and thus defraud him of the fruits. They have PEI
severed, alter the preliminary injunction very
properly granted by the District Judge.
pctual Injunction and a Master appointed 70 take
an account according to the prayer Of the bill.
X. G. GKER, Judge
Nors.-Thc passage referred to bv Judge Grier in
his former dsct'on, Wallace, p. 800 adopted a.
app picabe to this case was as follows:
ut Is usually the case. when any valuable dl.cov.
cry 10 made, any new machine Of great uility IL
invented that the attention of the public has beep
turned to that subject previously, and shat many
persons have been making researches and expert.
IN ssms measure anticipated In their specniatiOas
the possibility or probability of sueh discovery or
invention; many experiments have been successful.
y t,isd, coming very near yet falling short OF the
desired result. They have produced nothing bene
hcial. The iuYentiOn whom perfected may truly be
said to be the eliminating point OF MANY expert.
meme, not only ny the inventor, hut by many 9TH.
Ors. He may iavs prDfitsd indirectly bv the iusuc.
cessful experiments and hilures Of others. but It
gives them no right to claim SHIRE Of the he nor of
the profit Of the successful inventor 1t il when
speculation has been reduced to practice, when ex
pertinent has resulted IN scovery. and when that
discovery has been peiece ed by patient ana eontin
ued experiments, when some new compound art,
manufacture or machine hss besn ihus prOduced
which 10 usef to the public that the party nakinsil
beeomcs public benefactor and entitled to patent
"And yet when genius and patti, mt perseverance,
have at length succeeded, In spite of sn.srs and
SCOTS, some valuable Invention or discovery, bow
seldom Is Il followed by reward Envy rnbs him
Of the honor, v hiie speculators, swindleaa0d pi.
rates rob him Of the profits. Every uuiucceslRul
experimrnter who did or did or did not come vssy
near making discovery now claims It. Every one
who can invent an Improvement or vary its form,
claims right to pirate the original discovery. We
med not suniu,pns Morse, or Blanchard. or Wood.
worth proSs that this Is the usual history of eve
ry great discovery Or invention.
"The present case adds another chapter to this
long and uniiben history."-2 Wallace, Z. Z. ke-
poRs p. 2e2. n