Smith Cannery Machines Co. v. Seattle-Astoria Iron Works
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern Division of the Western District of Washington; Edward E. Cushman, Judge. Suit in equity by the Smith Cannery Machines Company against the Seattle-Astoria Iron Works, Thomas A. Heckman, and N. C. Nicholsen. Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
[1] The appellant brought a suit for infringement of two letters patent, which it owned as the assignee^ of the inventor, E. A. Smith. The patents are each for fish-dressing machine, the first of which is No. 796,538, issued on August 8, 1905, and the second is No. 979,103, issued on December 20, 1910. The court below found that there was no infringement and dismissed the bih.
The machines described in the patents are complicated, and the claims are many, for the reason that they include various operations in cleaning and preparing the fish, such as removing the heads,…
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