Perkins Glue Co. v. Standard Furniture Co.

HOUGH, Circuit Judge.

The history of litigation over this patent is so long and so fully reported that we shall for the most part express our opinion about the facts at bar by reference to other decisions. The patent is the Perkins reissue No. 13,436 (original No. 1,020,655, dated March 19, 1912; reissue dated July 2, 1912).

The validity and scope of the patent were elaborately considered by the appellate court in the Seventh Circuit in Solva, etc., Co. v. Perkins, etc., Co., 251 Fed. 64, 163 C. C. A. 314, modifying (D. C.) 223 Fed. 792. Claims 13, 28, 30, 31, and 38 were there in issue and are…