Squier v. American Telephone & Telegraph Co.

(after stating the facts as above). As above noted, we express no opinion as to defendant’s well-urged proposition that plaintiff’s patent is no more than a restatement of what other and earlier inventors long ago told the world, nor, in respect of the differing and irreconcilable opinions of Judge Advocates of different years, need we go further than to say that, while we should, if it were necessary, prefer the earlier opinion as better reasoned on the wording of the statute, we think this case was rightly decided below, even if the later views of statutory meaning are correct.

Plaintiff’s…