New England Fibre Blanket Co. v. Portland Telegram

BEAN, District Judge.

This is a bill charging infringement of a patent issued to Cochran and Youngs on May 22, 1917, ijor a “make-ready” of impression cylinders of newspaper printing presses, which consists in preparing the cylinders to receive the impression of the stereotype plates carried by the plate cylinders.

The validity of plaintiff’s patent is admitted. There is no controversy as to the facts. The only question for decision is whether the device used by the defendant is an infringement of the plaintiff’s patent.

Prior to the invention of Cochran and Youngs, the practice in the printing…