Cherry-Burrell Corporation v. Coe
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
1Opinion of the Court
■MILLER, Associate Justice.
This case involves milk bottle washing machinery which appellant claims is inventive in character — even though it may appear to the uninitiated as relatively simple and easy of accomplishment — because it was originated by employees of appellant only after many preliminary experiments; and thereafter required the expenditure of great effort and the incurring of considerable expense to bring it to a successful conclusion and sufficient perfection to secure commercial adaptation and acceptance. As has been pointed out many times, the products of such activities are…
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