Weed Chain Grip Co. v. Atlas Chain Co.

LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.

Ever since my attention was first called to the opinion of Judge Sanborn in the Excelsior Case, 179 Fed. 232, the study given to this patent and to the others constituting the prior art convinced me that it was a highly meritorious one, that the concept of a moving or creeping chain ladder was something distinctly new and extremely useful, and that any chain grip of substantially the same type which does in fact creep when in use, whether, slowly or rapidly, would infringe such patent. The great weight of judicial authority seems in accord with these views, and it was…