American Strawboard Co. v. Elkhart Egg-Case Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana
This is a suit by the American Strawboard Company against the Elkhart Egg-Case Company for damages and injunctive relief for the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 533,831, issued to William E. Williams on January 29, 1895, and by him duly assigned to the complainant.
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This is a suit by the American Strawboard Company against the Elkhart Egg-Case Company for damages and injunctive relief for the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 533,831, issued to William E. Williams on January 29, 1895, and by him duly assigned to the complainant. The patent relates tó an improvement in the art of manufacturing cell-cases, commonly called “fillers,” from straw-board or other suitable material, for the storage and transportation of eggs and other small articles. The defendant, in its answer, alleges want of patentable novelty in the alleged invention, anticipation…
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, District Judge
(after stating the facts). The patent in suit is for a process in manufacture, and not for the mechanism employed, nor for the finished product of such manufacture. Le Roy v. Tatham, 14 How. 156, 22 How. 132, establishes the doctrine that the application of a newly-discovered principle to known objects, through'known means used in an accustomed manner; and producing a previously known result, constitutes a patentable process. In that case the invention did not consist in the novelty in the machinery, but in bringing a newly-discovered principle into practical application, by which a useful…
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