Saranac Automatic MacHine Corp. v. Wirebounds Patents Co.

In this case certiorari was granted, 281 U. S. 711, to resolve a conflict of decision'between circuit courts of appeals with respect to the validity of Claim 25 of Patent No. 1,128,145, granted February 9, 1915, application filed October 27,1904, to Inwood and Lavenberg, for a machine for making box blanks. In the present suit, brought by respondents in the District Court for Western Michigan to enjoin infringement of this and other patents, the District Court held the patent “ invalid if infringed,” and entered a decree for petitioner, 24 F. (2d) 872, which the Court of Appeals for the Sixth…