Computing Scale Co. v. Keystone Store-Service Co.

BUFFINGTON, District Judge.

By this bill the Computing Scale

Company charges the Keystone Store-Service Company with the infringement of claim 12 of patent No. 385,005, issued June 26,1888, to J. E. Pitrat, for a weighing and price scale, and of claim 1 of patent No. 486,663, issued November 22, 1892, to J. W. Culmer, for a computing scale. Bearing in mind the statutory requirement that the patentee “shall particularly point out and distinctly claim the part, improvement or combination which he claims as his invention or discovery” (Rev. St. § 4888), we turn to the patent of Pitrat to ascertain…