Ideal Wrapping Mach. Co. v. George Close Co.

LOWELL, District Judge.

This was a bill in equity for the infringement of letters patent No. 1,082,331 and No. 1,082,463, both issqed on December 23, 1913, to Archibald E. Hopkins and Olin S. Fellows, for a candy wrapping machine, and assigned to the complainant. The respondent does not contest their validity, nor does it deny that what it did would under ordinary circumstances have been an infringement. Its contention is that under the circumstances of the present ease its 'aetions were legal.

The letters patent sued on cover a machine for wrapping small cubes of candy, especially caramels.…