Long v. Pope Manuf'g Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a suit in equity by George A. Long and others against the Pope Manufacturing Company for alleged infringement of letters patent No. 281,091, issued July 10, 1883, to George A. Long, for an improved steering head for road vehicles. The circuit court held that there was no infringement, and dismissed the hill. 70 Fed. 855. The complainants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This patent was taken out in 1882, and, so far as it comes in issue here, it has not been put into prac*836tieal use.' Therefore, in- determining the inventor’s conception of the functions of the claim in issue, of the condition of the art, and of,, thq improvement which he gavé to- the public, our- safest resource,- after so long a lapse of time, is the patent itself. For these purposes the patent is very meager. It fails to state the inventor’s conception of the state of the art, the particular advance which he understood himself to have accomplished, or the parts of his…
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