Case Name: Stephenson v. The Second Avenue Railroad Company
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1880-01-20
Citations: 1 F. 416
Docket Number: 
Parties: Stephenson v. The Second Avenue Railroad Company.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 1
Pages: 416–416

Head Matter:
Stephenson v. The Second Avenue Railroad Company.
(Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
January 20, 1880.)
Patent — Re-issue—Identitv of Invention.
Infringement of Patent.

Opinion:
Wheeler, J.
TÍie only real question 'presented at the hearing oft'l^s cause upon the pleadings as drawn, under the law, and the evidence admissible in support of them, is whether the re-issued patent No. 6,6d7, dated October 11, 1875, is for the same invention as that for which the original patent No. 61,482, dated January 22, 1867, was granted. Upon a careful examination of each, although there are several things mentioned and described in the specification of the re-issue not mentioned or described in that of the original, and although the claims are quite different, there is nothing mentioned or described in the specification of the re-issue not shown in the drawings or model of the original, so far as has been observed, and there is no element of any combination, or arrangement,or device, claimed in the re-isssue that is not either mentioned or described in the original as performing, or intended to perform, the office assigned to it in the reissue. Therefore, it cannot be held that the re-issue is for any different invention from that described in the original.
Let a decree be entered for the orator for an injunction against further infringement of any of the patents described in the bill except.No. 1,959, dated June 14, 1864, for a design, which has expired, and for an account according to the prayer of the bill, with costs.