Manhattan Book Casing Mach. Co. v. E. C. Fuller Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Suit for infringement of a patent by the Manhattan Book Casing Machine Company against the E. C. Fuller Company. This is the usual bill in equity upon patent No. 603,406, for a machine to apply “cases” or cardboard covers to books. When books have been sewed together, they must have the outer sheets covered with paste, upon which the cover is then pressed.
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In Equity. Suit for infringement of a patent by the Manhattan Book Casing Machine Company against the E. C. Fuller Company. This is the usual bill in equity upon patent No. 603,406, for a machine to apply “cases” or cardboard covers to books. When books have been sewed together, they must have the outer sheets covered with paste, upon which the cover is then pressed. The cover keeps to the book only by the tenacity of the paper and of a small piece of stiff muslin at the back, the loose ends of which are likewise pasted to the cover between it and the outer sheets. Before the invention here…
1Opinion of the CourtLearned Hand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] There can be no question that the patent was the first that purported to disclose a machine by which books could be coated with paste and take up the “case,” or cover, in position to be registered and sent *966to the press. As such it might fairly be within the definition of a pioneer patent, and its claims receive the scope in interpretation accorded to such patents, provided it disclosed one way in which this function could in fact be performed. However, even a pioneer patent must be accompanied with a disclosure, which will show the art how the idea…
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