Indiana Novelty Mfg. Co. v. Crocker Chair Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Wisconsin
Two separate actions are brought for infringement of the same patents, both submitted by stipulation upon the same testimony. The complainant is the owner of the following letters patent: Mo. 500.430. granted McKee & Harrington, October 10, 1893, and designated throughout the record as the “Harrington patent”; and patent Ho. 517,732, granted to the complainant, as assignee of George W. Marble, October 8,-1895, and referred to as the “Marble patent.”
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Two separate actions are brought for infringement of the same patents, both submitted by stipulation upon the same testimony. The complainant is the owner of the following letters patent: Mo. 500.430. granted McKee & Harrington, October 10, 1893, and designated throughout the record as the “Harrington patent”; and patent Ho. 517,732, granted to the complainant, as assignee of George W. Marble, October 8,-1895, and referred to as the “Marble patent.” The claims in the patents, respectively, so far as involved in these suits, are as follows: Under the Harrington patent, claims 1 and 4, which…
1Opinion of the CourtSeaman, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The controversy in these cases relates wholly to the patentable novelty of the claims in question under each of the letters patent. The utility of the devices, especially as they are embodied in patent No. 547,-732, is unquestioned, and infringement is contested by objections only to the sufficiency of the proofs. The issue involved of anticipation in the prior art, which is frequently one of complexity and nice distinctions, is here simplified by the nature of the testimony, the undoubted authenticity of the exhibits, and the clear presentation in…
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