National Typographic Co. v. New York Typograph Co.

Lacombe, Circuit Judge.

That the machines manufactured and sold by .the defendants may be lighter, smaller, cheaper, more easily operated, and more efficient; that they may be a decided improvement on the Mergenthaler machine, and may, as such, commend themselves more readily to the public; that they are themselves patented, and that, if put in open competition with the earlier machines, they would prove more attractive to purchasers and users, — each of which points is pressed with great force by the defendants, — is wholly immaterial, if the complainants’ main contention is a sound one,…