Briggs v. Central Ice Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
• Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. This was a hill filed by John N. Briggs against the Central Ice Company for the infringement of a patent. There was a decree below for defendant, (54 Fed. 376,) and complainant appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
The learned judge who decided this 'cause in the court below suggested in his opinion that it was doubtful whether there was any patentable novelty in the combination of the first claim of the patent, the only claim in controversy; but he preferred to place Ms decision upon the ground that the claim must, in view of the prior state of the art, be limited to the combination of the precise devices of the patent, and, upon such a construction, was not infringed by the apparatus of the defendant. The claim is for a combination of devices which are designed to facilitate the…
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