Office Specialty Manufacturing Co. v. Fenton Metallic Manufacturing Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a bill in equity filed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the Fenton Metallic Manufacturing Company against the appellant to recover for the infringement of letters patent number 450,124, issued April 7, 1891, to Horace J. Hoffman, for improvements in storage cases for books.
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APPEAL FROM THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. This was a bill in equity filed in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia by the Fenton Metallic Manufacturing Company against the appellant to recover for the infringement of letters patent number 450,124, issued April 7, 1891, to Horace J. Hoffman, for improvements in storage cases for books. In the specification the patentee declares that “ the object of my invention is to facilitate the handling and prevent the abrasion and injury of heavy books, etc. It consists, essentially, of the peculiar arrangement of the-guiding…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
We consider the question of the validity of this patent as the decisive one in this case. The patent was adjudged to be valid by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, as well as by the Court of Appeals. It had been held to be invalid by Judge Lacombe, sitting in the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, upon a motion for a preliminary injunction, Fenton Metallic Manufacturing Co. v. Chase, 73 Fed. Rep. 831, and by Judge Wheeler, upon a final hearing of the same case, 84 Fed. Rep. 893.
• The elements of Hoffman’s combination, as described in the first claim alleged to be…
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