Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1872

Hawkes v. Remington

Hawkes v. Remington
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · Decided November 15, 1872 · Gray
111 Mass. 171
Hawkes v. Remington

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Opinion of the Court

Gray, J.

The identity of the inventions described in the two patents does not appear npon their face, without the assistance of the testimony of experts, and should have been submitted to the jury. Battin v. Taggert, 17 How. 74. Bischoff v. Wethered, 9 Wall. 812. Hill v. Evans, 4 De G., F. & J. 288. Betts v. Menzies, 10 H. L. Cas. 117. New trial ordered.

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