Hall-Mammoth Incubator Co. v. Teabout
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern .District of New York. On appeal from a decree of the District Court for the Northern District of New York (205 Fed. 906) dismissing the bill of complaint with costs, in an action for infringement based upon letters patent No. 692,277 granted to Wilber P. Hall, February 4, 1902, for an incubator. The patent contains a single claim which sufficiently describes the invention for the purposes of this appeal.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Northern .District of New York. On appeal from a decree of the District Court for the Northern District of New York (205 Fed. 906) dismissing the bill of complaint with costs, in an action for infringement based upon letters patent No. 692,277 granted to Wilber P. Hall, February 4, 1902, for an incubator. The patent contains a single claim which sufficiently describes the invention for the purposes of this appeal. It is as follows: “Tn combination with an incubator, a heater, having a water-jacket, pipes within the incubator having…
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, Circuit Judge.
[1, 2] Hall invented a successful incubator. He was not a pioneer in this art, as incubators had been known before, operating upon substantially the same principle. Whether he could have obtained a broad claim for his contribution to the art it is unnecessary to decide, as he received a patent with a single claim, limited to the apparatus described and containing 13 separate and distinct elements. Unquestionably the defendant has omitted three of these elements. Even if the complainant were entitled to a broad application of the doctrine of equivalents, that rule is not…
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