National Folding-Box & Paper Co. v. Elsas
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
This is an appeal from a final decree of the circuit court for the Southern district of New York, which adjudged that the complainant was entitled to double damages for the infringement of claim 2 of letters patent No. 171,868, dated January 4, 1870, and issued to Reuben Ritter for an improved paper box.
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This is an appeal from a final decree of the circuit court for the Southern district of New York, which adjudged that the complainant was entitled to double damages for the infringement of claim 2 of letters patent No. 171,868, dated January 4, 1870, and issued to Reuben Ritter for an improved paper box. The litigation upon this patent commenced in the case of Box Co. v. Nugent, in which Judge Lacombe found upon final hearing that the defendants had infringed the second claim. 41 Fed. 139. In a subsequent case against the American Paper Pail & Box Company, Judge Lacombe granted an injunction…
1Opinion of the CourtShipman, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). The object of the invention was to make a broad, shallow box of stiff, coarse, and cheap strawboard from a single sheet of paper, without tacks and mucilage, which can be used for the carriage or storage of bulky *918fabrics, such as ladies’ dresses or suits of clothes. Before the invention, tubular paper boxes were used, the sides of which were permanently fastened together like those of an envelope, and when not in use could be collapsed, but were open at the ends, and were interlocked by hooks of the same material. The boxes of the patent in suit are known as…
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