A PATENT CASE.
( ,Tne. Chief Justice delivered f judgment L .in ;ttie,,patent r 9^e?o£ ,Belit *43/iPart; f, Bartholomew to-day,, TKo 'case' pomes Feilding, and is a spmewnat singular 6Mef ' '!Th6': inveniiqii concerned./ is a coa.trivance for ' enabling .yehi^ek to make a 'quicksand salEe 'turning , aroUnd! corners, for which both parties simultjaneo'u'sly applied for a patent. ; The applitati^na were both refused ia consequence. ',of informalities; buVeubsequenrty, on Feit).,26,tte plaintiffs' renewed application was', accepted .with provisional specj#cafcio#,.ahd'a" patent waß 'granted in Juney I ,' Pefen^a^t'a application for a,' patent; Was theft refused. The present, action waa brought by the plaintiffs againat the. defendant for an infringement 6t the patent. His Hbiibr said that the' . only cpncluaion he could conid to was that it was, a ease' Of ,tw6 distinct persons each making the came, invention., In each case the later applicant ' could iaoiti day that the earlier applicant was noft^e/ inventor and entitled to a patent' which; the later applicant might have ;been; entitled to 'himself had he' not been' dilatory in his proceedings. PJaintiffs werei,. therefore, entitled to 'the injdhctiqn asked, and to judgment; for £2 and damaeeß as agreed, with coats and disbursements.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4542, 13 January 1893, Page 4
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192A PATENT CASE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4542, 13 January 1893, Page 4
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