Case Name: P. Lorillard & Co. v. McAlpin and others
Court: United States Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1882-02-28
Citations: 14 F. 112
Docket Number: 
Parties: P. Lorillard & Co. v. McAlpin and others.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 14
Pages: 112–112

Head Matter:
P. Lorillard & Co. v. McAlpin and others.
(Circuit Court, S. D. New York.
February 28, 1882.)
Patents for- Inventions—Reissue. -
A claim in a reissue cannot be extended so as to embrace an invention not specified in the original.
Gifford é Gifforcl, for plaintiffs.
B. F. .Thurston and '3. A. Duncan, for defendants.

Opinion:
Blatchford, C. J.
In view of the decision in James v. Campbell, 3 Morr. Trans. 439, there is so much doubt as to the validity of the reissue ["Improvement in Plug Tobacco," granted, to Charles Siedler, October 24, 1876,] in this case, if construed, in regard to claims 1, 3, and 4, as covering labels not put under wrappers, that those claims must-be construed, for the purposes of this motion, as not extending to labels not under wrappers. That being so, the defendants do not infringe.
The motion is denied.