National Folding-Box & Paper Co. v. Gair

THOMAS, District Judge.

Upon the argument of the above case on the merits the attention of the court was directed sparingly, if at all, to the boxes manufactured by the defendant, which are now claimed to be involved in the accounting. Defendant’s box, with interlocking turned-in portions, with the usual end piece appertaining to the box, which is covered by complainant’s patent, seems to fall within claim 1. The reason for this is explicitly set forth in letters *192patent No. 519,451, issued to the defendant subsequently to the patent in suit. In such letters the inventor, after describing his…