Appleton Manuf'g Co. v. Star Manuf'g Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from tbe .Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. Bill bj the Appleton Manufacturing Company against the Star Manufacturing- Company, Delos Dunton, and H. Gi. Sawyer to restrain infringement of a, patent. Defendants obtained a decree. 51 Fed. 284. Complainant appeals.
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Appeal from tbe .Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of Illinois. Bill bj the Appleton Manufacturing Company against the Star Manufacturing- Company, Delos Dunton, and H. Gi. Sawyer to restrain infringement of a, patent. Defendants obtained a decree. 51 Fed. 284. Complainant appeals. The suit was by the appellant against the appellees for an aeeounüng and to enjoin infringement of letters patent No. 290,57J, issued December 18, .1883, to S. P. Goddard, for “improvements in methods of reducing com in the stalk and separating the kernels,” of which the specification and…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, Circuit Judge
(after stating the case). The utterances of the supreme court upon the question whether or not a mechanical process is patentable are not in clear harmony; Corning v. Burden, 15 How. 267; O’Reilly v. Morse, Id. 62; Tilghman v. Proctor, 102 U. S. 707; Lawther v. Hamilton, 124 U. S. 1, 8 Sup. Ct. 342; Cochrane v. Deener, 94 U. S. 788; Brown v. Piper, 91 U. S. 37. In Lawther v. Hamilton, the process was for extracting oil from oleaginous seeds, and was not entirely mechanical; but the improvement for which the patent there considered was granted consisted merely in the omission of a mechanical…
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