Toledo Computing Scale Co. v. Computing Scale Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois; Kenesaw M. Dan-dis, Judge. Suit in equity by the Computing Scale Company against tbe Toledo Computing Scale Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois; Kenesaw M. Dan-dis, Judge. Suit in equity by the Computing Scale Company against tbe Toledo Computing Scale Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. Appellant (defendant) was adjudged to be an infringer of claims 5 and 6 of reissued patent No. 11,536, April 28, 1896, and of claim 2 of patent No. 597,300, January 11, 1898. Each was issued on application of Albert D. Smith, for improvements in automatic computing scales. As the scales of complainant and defendant are…
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Circuit Judge.
In this record the greatest thing is the fact that Smith put in the hands of the world’s vendors of commodities the first usable automatic computing scale. Long before Smith’s time, and the length of the interval is a fact of considerable weight, the paper art (Phinney’s patent, No. 106,869, in 1870, and Babcock’s, No. 421,805, in 1890) had professed to teach practical scale-makers how to build automatic computing scales. But when those disclosures were given material bodies, failure was the result. Just as Smith said in his specification, they would not work twice alike,…
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