Smyth Mfg. Co. v. Sheridan
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal irpmithe Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, holding defendants guilty of infringement of claims 3 and 15 of United States letters patent No. 435,613, dated September 2, 1890, to Reynolds and Jacobs for book-sewing machines, and ordering injunction and accounting.
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Appeal irpmithe Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, holding defendants guilty of infringement of claims 3 and 15 of United States letters patent No. 435,613, dated September 2, 1890, to Reynolds and Jacobs for book-sewing machines, and ordering injunction and accounting. The decision of the Circuit Court is found in 144 Fed. 423, and the following excerpt therefrom exhaustively and clearly describes the machine of the patent. “This patent relates to a…
1Opinion of the CourtLacombe, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts). The machine, of the patent is a complicated one, comprising many parts, and exhibit-: ing various combinations. The patentee sought to cover whatever fea*210tures' they conceived to be novel by 16 separate claims, some of which deal with quite minute details of operative parts. Two claims only (3 and 15) are relied upon, and we are therefore concerned only with the particular combinations which they refer to. Whether invention may or may not lie in the combinations set forth in other claims need not be discussed; it is not charged that any of those other claims are…
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