People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1895 — Decision in a Noted Patent Case. [ARTICLE]

Decision in a Noted Patent Case.

Cleveland, 0., April 24.—An opinion has been handed down by United States Circuit Judge Taft, which decides a famous patent case which has been in court for a number of years. The defendants claimed they had the right of two patents by assignment from Chas. Bradley for a process of separating metals, particularly aluminum, from their ores by the use of an electric current, both to fuse and electrolyze the ores. The plaintiffs, on the other hand, alleged the patent right had been sold to them and that they held letters patent at the department in Washington. The defendants’ people also held letters patent and the suit was to determine which party was guilty of infringement. Judge Taft in a voluminous opinion held the defendants had infringed and were not entitled to letters patent. He granted the plaintiffs a perpetual injunction restraining the defendants from using the patent rights and ordered the letters patent held by .the Cowles people canceled and declared void.