Mastoras v. Hildreth
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Oregon; Wolverton, Judge. Suit by Herbert L. Hildreth against Jim M. Mastoras. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
GILBERT, Circuit Judge.
The appellant appeals from a decree of the court below whereby he was adjudged to have infringed claim 1 of patent No. 831,501, issued on September 18, 1906, to Herbert M. Dickinson, for an “improvement in candy-pulling machines.” The appellant denied infringement and denied the validity of the Dickinson patent.
The only prior patent to which we find it necessary to refer is No. 511,011, issued to Firchau on December 19, 1893, for an improvement in “machines for working or pulling candy.” Firchau’s machine consists of a fixed drum wherein are placed heads which carry…
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