Patent Button Co. v. Consolidated Fastener Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maine
This was a suit in equity by the Patent Button Company against the Consolidated Fastener Company for alleged infringement of letters patent No. 520,999, to Irving G-. Platt, for a device for driving and clinching tacks. The cause was heard on demurrer to the bill for want of patentable invention.
1Opinion of the Court
PU.TNAM, Circuit Judge.
This bill was brought for relief against alleged infringements of a patent for an invention. The respondent demurred to the bill; assigning that the patent is invalid on its face, for lack of patentability. The patent relates to a device for driving and clinching tacks. The device consists of a tack holder, with a slot or recess suited to hold the head of the tack, and a die adapted, by its peculiar form, to curl or clinch the point of the tack. The cloth and the button, or whatever is to be secured by the tack, interpose, of course, between the die and the tack holder.…
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