Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1885 — AN IMPORTANT DECISION [ARTICLE]

AN IMPORTANT DECISION

For the Newark Machine Company, of Columbus, Ohio. The Newark Machine Company, at Columbus, Ohio, is the owner of several patents for building the Victor Double Huller Clover Machine, which is the only double cylinder clover huller made in the world, it has a wide reputation all over the land, and the sales have run up to 800 in a single year. After the destruction of the company’s works at Newark, last summer, the Ashland Machine Company at Ashland, Ohio, sent out notices that owing to the destruction of the works of the Newark Machine Company, that company would be unable to furnish hullers for last year’s trade, and stated they would build a clover huller and seed cleaner as good as the Victor. The firm of Gear, Scott & Co., of Richmond, Ind., secured a Victor clover huller and tore it apart and commenced the building of clover hullers with seed cleaning attachments thereto, which could scarcely be told from the Victor, upon which they tried to secure letters patent. The Newark Machine Company filed interference suitbefiSre the Commissioner of Patents at Washington, and furnished such conclusive evidence of the attempted seizure of Newark Company’s patents, that the Commissioner of Patents decided the patents of the Newark Machine valid in law and were infringed upon by the firm of Gear, Scott & Co. Under this decision the agents who have sold or the persons who have purchased and used a clover huller embodying any of the features of the Victor are liable to the Newark Machine Company for damages. The Newark Machine Company will now turn their attention to the case of the Ashland Machine Company for similar infringements.