Outlook Envelope Co. v. General Paper Goods Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United- States for the Eastern District of New York. Suit in .equity by the Outlook Envelope Company and the United States Envelope Company against the General Paper Goods Manufacturing Company and others. Decree for complainants, and defendants appeal. Appeal from decree in equity in favor of plaintiffs, entered in the District Court, the suit being on claims 5, 14, and 15 of patent No. 893,105 (to Slater), for an “envelope machine.”
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Appeal from the District Court of the United- States for the Eastern District of New York. Suit in .equity by the Outlook Envelope Company and the United States Envelope Company against the General Paper Goods Manufacturing Company and others. Decree for complainants, and defendants appeal. Appeal from decree in equity in favor of plaintiffs, entered in the District Court, the suit being on claims 5, 14, and 15 of patent No. 893,105 (to Slater), for an “envelope machine.” Claims 5 and 15 of this patent were before this court in Outlook Envelope Co. v. Samuel Cupples Envelope Co., 223 Fed.…
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, Circuit Judge.
The nature of Slater’s invention was sufficiently stated in the Cupples Case. We now assume that the patent is of a primary nature, and that the machine embodying it has proved useful and profitable in the art of manufacturing with cheapness, rapidity, and in great numbers what are called “window envelopes.” The single question in this litigation is whether this defendant’s device is an infringement.
*878It is worthy of note that, while the patent is called one for an “-envelope machine,” the valuable invention revealed does not purport to cover a complete apparatus for…
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