H. Mueller Meg. Co. v. Glauber
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. Suit in equity by Joseph A. Glauber against the H. Mueller Manufacturing Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. Appellee instituted this suit to restrain infringement of the four claims of patent No. 782,552, granted to him on February 14, 1905. upon application filed May 21, 1904, for improvements in coupling-pipes.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of Illinois. Suit in equity by Joseph A. Glauber against the H. Mueller Manufacturing Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. Appellee instituted this suit to restrain infringement of the four claims of patent No. 782,552, granted to him on February 14, 1905. upon application filed May 21, 1904, for improvements in coupling-pipes. Claim 1 calls for a coupling-joint per se, as a new article of manufacture. The other claims in varying language call for a coupling-joint in ■combination with coupling…
1Opinion of the CourtKohlsaat, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Preliminarily to a consideration of the patent as set out in the claims, specification, and drawings thereof, it may be well to look into a certain assumption of the patentee, the experts, and counsel, wherein it is sought to read into the patent features which are neither claimed nor suggested therein. Of these, the most prominently asserted are those which claim for the patent the invention or first use of what is variously termed an annealed- mongrel-sized pipe, or pipe of a new, or characteristic, or off-size in dealing with the element of telescoping…
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