Schubert Piano Co. v. Æolian Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity by the Schubert Piano Company against the JEolian Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
MANTON, Circuit Judge.
This appellant, which was the defendant in the case of Æolian Co. v. Schubert Piano Co., 261 Fed. 178,-C. C. A.-, decided herewith, sues, contending that the JEolian Company’s sheet music guiding device infringes patent No. 1,194,725, granted to it after invention by Joseph W. Dickinson, on new and useful improvements in sheet music guiding mechanism.
On April 11, 1911, the application for this patent was filed. Then there was no reference or description to the so-called law of the bleeding port operation, as is now advanced, nor were any of the claims here in suit then…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Æolian Co. v. Schubert Piano Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1919