Show GREENS PATENT the well ContrO controversy und and the decision A OP OF INTEREST collected on auwell driven drive before january eighteen hundred n and eighty eig lity five considerable interest in in tho the dm driven en well question it his be been roused aroused lately by bya a decision of the supreme court of tile united states sustaining tho the valid ity of nelson W greens reissued patent on dm driven en or ot tubular w wells ella there is yet a m wide ide difference of opinion as to the effect the decision will have upon wells dm driven en subsequent to januar january ary 14 1885 lie the dato date of the tile expire expiration of green greens original patent the tile following from the rwal rural new boer llor ker may throw some light on tho tile subject rural new yorke 1 may rna throw some I 1 lighten ight oil the subject aki MIT OF 01 TIM DRIVEN WELL PATENT NT list monday the united states court at washington ashington lV announced its adecir decision ion buAt tho the validity a lidit of nelbon bo IV greens Grec iia reissued re issued patent on driven ar or tube ni ell 4 thua finally closing in a litigation of fourteen years eare there were ere two appeals one one from the united states district court for the dietrict of connecticut and the other fro from inthe alie L united states circuit court for the northern district of ottino ohio and the same decision covers cover a both cases the patent vis was opposed on three grounds let that the mi invention antion it coi cov ored had been anticipated by others second 0 O c 0 ad that too long an interval fio five y e ears a r s had biad been allowed to elapse au between tile time when the tile indention invention came into public uhe and that it which well N application hid had been made tor for a patent tit and third that in in the eions for i a reissue of the patent more ara was claimed than was a cohered covered by the original nal patent a tile indention invention of tile tube pd or dm nac 1 I en n well wel I 1 occurred in in the tho summer of the first patent for it was obtained by b james in in 1809 and after wyral several otmer oti Xa patents tents connected nh acted with it had been issued green obtained ins his original patent in in 1868 finding this impracticable lie ile surrendered rr it iland and bought a on broider broader ground grounds and obtained it in in sla may 1871 for the pirt part of tale term terin of the original assue sue tho the term of greens reissued it ent expired january 14 1885 the recent decision will affect only wells put down prior to tint that dite date and under it tile users of ill all such wells wella put down without license from front green or ins ills a agents cuts will hao to pa a i a probably flo tIO for each unfed un e ra they le have done don a so already no patent in in recent years ears ins has caused so much mide w ide spread discontent dib content or dono done prejudice tile public a against adust our patent system than greens 0 on ii the driven m well ell indeed with the tile failers of the country and especially with those of the ho west the patent on driven wells all and d thoo those on barbed wire mire fencing leave caused more tion perhaps s than all others C m over patents e cohering 0 1 I 1 N various features of he the tube well m el haio 1 a have becci obtained most of w inch which liae lave expired though a vegia cry few are re still in tit force to iames and a swindle indle tile agriculturist greens patent ine his boen beets ja w litigation before united states circuit courts in at least leat ten of tile state states ind and tho jeci eci hivo have been about ciu aly di div aided for and against its validity over a 4 ear ago tho the united states supreme court t rendered a decision upon the matter but as two of the justices were in favor of its validity y and two against it mabile one was absent no tle ment was m as made mondays decision having been agreed upon by ama jonty of the tile court finally settles the question it is is supposed that from froin to welli wells cohered covered by br the patent were put donn before it expired in january issa 1885 |