Simmons Mfg. Co. v. Southern Spring Bed Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Georgia
In Equity. Suit for infringement of letters patent No. 639,222 for a spring bed and seat bottom, granted to John E. Gail December 19, 1899. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
PARDEE, Circuit Judge.
The case shows by proof and admission that all the elements entering into complainant’s patented combination were old, and the combination itself appears to consist merely in bringing together the well-known spring and tie-rod of Mellon’s patent of 1885, and the key rod and method of tying in McEntire’s patent of 1881; and, so far as novelty of the claimed combination is concerned, the Patent Office might well have stood throughout upon the first decision of the examiner. The file wrapper shows that on the original presentation of Gail’s application for patent, which…
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