Beckwith v. Malleable Iron Range Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin
In Equity. Suit by Arthur K. Beckwith against the Malleable Iron Range Company. This is a bill in equity charging infringement of letters patent of the United States numbered 787,425, issued to complainant April 18, 1905, the application for which was made on the 11th day of September, 1903. Prayer for an injunction and accounting.
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In Equity. Suit by Arthur K. Beckwith against the Malleable Iron Range Company. This is a bill in equity charging infringement of letters patent of the United States numbered 787,425, issued to complainant April 18, 1905, the application for which was made on the 11th day of September, 1903. Prayer for an injunction and accounting. The answer denies that complainant was the first invéntor and discoverer of the improvements described and claimed in complainant’s patent; alleges that the said alleged invention in all-material points thereof had been anticipated by a large number , of patents,…
1Opinion of the CourtQuarres, District Judge
(after staling the facts as aboye). ..The defendant insists that claim 33 of the Beckwith patent is void:
“Because the claim is noi complete or clear, but is functional, indefinite, and uncertain, and does not cover the construction now contended for as novel, namely, a spherically convex contact plate convex in more than one direction, either by the language, or by reference to the drawing and specifications.”
In another part of the brief, counsel say the “hone of contention in this case” is whether the element of the convex rigid back-plate should he given its ordinary and usual…
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