Legal Opinion
Beach v. Hobbs
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Decided August 23, 1897No. 256PublishedCited by 20 opinions
This was a suit in equity by Fred. H. Beach against Clarence W. Hobbs and others ior alleged infringement of reissued letters patent No. 11, 167, granted May 26, 1891, to complainant, for a machine for staying the corners of paper boxes. The original patent was numbered 447, 225.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
The patent involved in this litigation purports to cover an improvement in machines for attaching stays to the corners of boxes. The specification clearly describes the main feature claimed to be covered by the patent, so far as we are concerned with it, as follows:
“It has been customary heretofore, in making paper or- sirawboard boxes, to apply a stay or fastening strip over the joints at the corners of the boxes, which strip is pasted down on the outside of the box, or is folded over the edge of the box, and secured by paste, both outside ami inside of the corner; and…
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- In re BaudouineDistrict Court, S.D. New York · 1899
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