Scott v. Hoe
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. This was a suit in equity by Robert Hoe and others against Walter Scott for alleged infringement of letters patent No. 331,280, granted December 1, 1885, to R. Hoe & Co., assignees of Luther C. Crowell, for improvements in machines for folding paper and other materials. The circuit court rendered a decree for complainants.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey. This was a suit in equity by Robert Hoe and others against Walter Scott for alleged infringement of letters patent No. 331,280, granted December 1, 1885, to R. Hoe & Co., assignees of Luther C. Crowell, for improvements in machines for folding paper and other materials. The circuit court rendered a decree for complainants. See 65 Fed. 606, where the facts are fully stated in the opinion of Acheson, circuit judge. Defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
DALLAS, Circuit Judge.
The 32 errors alleged in this case, are, in appellant’s brief, resolved into the following propositions:
“(1) Without reference to the state of the art as disclosed by the proofs, the machine constructed by the defendant at Plainfield, New Jersey, for the Montreal Star newspaper, differs so materially from wliat is described in the specification and drawings of the Orowell patent, No. 331,280, that there can be no infringement of any of the seven claims in controversy.
“(2) In view of the state of the art, as it existed at the date of the complainants’ invention, the…
2Cited by1 opinion
- Hoe v. ScottU.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey · 1898