Wirebounds Patents Co. v. Chicago Mill & Lumber Co.
District Court, N.D. Illinois
In Equity. Suit by the Wirebounds Patents Company and the Wire-bounds Corporation against the Chicago Mill & Lumber Company. On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
SANBORN, District Judge.
Infringement suit, begun January 20, 1914, on the Inwood & Lavenberg reissued patent, No. 12,725, dated November 26, 1907, original No. 799,854, applied for October 17,, 1904; also on the patent to Ellsworth E. Elora, No. 907,586, dated December 22, 1908, applied for December 4, 1905. Defenses set up are invalidity of the reissue, as broadening the original, invalidity, and noninfringement.
The controversy relates to wire-bound boxes made by complicated and elaborate machinery, and the business is a very important and rapidly growing one. Plaintiffs own 29 patents on…
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