J. N. Reed v. Dean G. Parrack, D/B/A Lawn Mowing and Equipment Mfg. Co.

BROWN, Circuit Judge.

The question here is whether the District Court was warranted in finding that the accused device did not infringe the plaintiff-appellant’s patent. 1

Obscured in the probably unavoidable paténtese of the sole claim in suit 2 is a relatively simple device which, while not earth shaking in its importance, may be looked upon as a boon to our urbanized mechanical age. The machine is a power lawn edger. It is a hand-pushed apparatus somewhat smaller than a power lawn mower, with the cutting blade operated by a gasoline engine. Mechanically, its great contribution seems to be in…