Dunn Mfg. Co. v. Standard Computing Scale Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan; Alexis C. Angelí, Judge. Suit in equity by the Dunn Manufactoring Company and others r/rr-.iust the Standard Computing Scale Company. On appeal by complainants from final decree awarding nominal damages only for infringement of patent.
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
After the opinion of this court, sustaining the Dunn patent, No. 800,431 (163 Fed. 521, 90 C. C. A. 331), the usual interlocutory decree for complainants was entered below and an accounting had. Complainants waived damages. It appeared that defendant had embodied in its market structure not only the patent infringed, but also, under a royalty contract with one Osborn, an improvement thereon patented to the latter. After the decree, defendant changed the form of its device, and claimed that it thus avoided infringement. Complainants insisted that the change was not…
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