Consolidated Brake-Shoe Co. v. Detroit Steel & Spring Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Michigan
. In Equity. Bill for infringement of a patent. A preliminary injunction was heretofore granted. See 47 Fed. 894. Decree for complainants.
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. In Equity. Bill for infringement of a patent. A preliminary injunction was heretofore granted. See 47 Fed. 894. Decree for complainants. The complainants are the assignees of the Ross Brake-Shoe Company, a New Jersey corporation, to which had been assigned by George P. Ross all his right, title, claim, and interest in letters patent of the United States No. 292,861, for an improvement in railway brake shoes, granted to said Ross February 5, 1884. The bill of complaint charges that defendants are infringing the right secured by the letters patent, and prays an injunction, an accounting, and…
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, District Judge,
(after stating the facts.) The single question arising upon this record is as to the patentability of the Ross railway brake shoe. The defense admits this to be the only issue, and insists that the prior state of the art and the simplicity of the device both negative the validity of the patent. The proofs taken in the cause since the granting of the injunction by Judge Brown afford no ground for varying the conclusions which he then reached. The drawing of the Ross shoe in the patent office was made by his attorney, and shows that the lug or rib on the inner side of the…
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