Packard v. Lacing Stud Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a bill in equity by the Lacing Stud Company against Nathaniel R. Packard for alleged infringement of letters patent No. 255,076, issued March 14, 1882, to Andrew Eppler, Jr., for a machine for feeding and setting lacing hc-ohs. The machine used by respondent was made according to letters patent No. 309,166, issued December 9,1884, to Stephen N. Smith.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This was a bill in equity by the Lacing Stud Company against Nathaniel R. Packard for alleged infringement of letters patent No. 255,076, issued March 14, 1882, to Andrew Eppler, Jr., for a machine for feeding and setting lacing hc-ohs. The machine used by respondent was made according to letters patent No. 309,166, issued December 9,1884, to Stephen N. Smith. The first, third, sixth, and seventh claims of the Eppler patent were put in issue in the case, and the circuit court held that, each of these claims…
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This is a suit on a patent for improvements in machines for feeding and setting lacing studs. The defendant below (now appellant) claims that the patented machine of the plaintiff below (now appellee) is inoperative; and, in turn, the plain*67tiff below claims that the alleged anticipa tory machine especially relied on by the defendant was abandoned, as a failure, after a short experimental use. Questions of this character are too often pressed on the court without necessity, diverting its attention from more substantial issues. The rules touching them are well settled.…
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