Bettendorf Patents Co. v. J. R. Little Metal Wheel Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. ■ Appellant failed in its suit to bold appellee for infringement of letters patent No. 550,815, December 3, 1895, to W. P. and J. W. Bettendorf.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. ■ Appellant failed in its suit to bold appellee for infringement of letters patent No. 550,815, December 3, 1895, to W. P. and J. W. Bettendorf. Tbe first and second claims of the patent are as follows: “(1) Tbe improvement in tbe art of securing metal spokes to metal bubs, wbicb consists in introducing tbe end of each spoke into a seamless or undivided socket integral with tbe hub, and then applying to tbe bub external pressure sufficient to compress and reduce tbe socket tightly around tbe spokes. “(2)…
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, Circuit Judge
Appellant rests its case upon the second claim.
Appellee presents, among others, the following contentions: .That the first claim, on reference to the prior art, is void for want of invention; that the second claim, being for the same process as the first, except in the unspecified amount of further pressure to be applied, is therefore void also; and that the method of each claim is unpatentable, because it simply calls for the operation or function of a machine.
To pass upon these is unnecessary, for we believe that, whether the patent was inadvertently issued or the rejection was deliberately…
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