Rand, McNally & Co. v. Exchange Scrip-Book Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Suit in equity by the Exchange Scrip-Book Company against Rand, McNally & Co. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Suit in equity by the Exchange Scrip-Book Company against Rand, McNally & Co. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. The appeal is from a decree enjoining appellants from infringing claim 4, of letters patent No. 669.489, issued March 5, 1901, to appellee, on the application of Joseph Richardson and George D. Bangston, for certain improvements in Railway Tickets. Claim 4 of the patent is as follows: “4. A scrip-book having as integral parts thereof a strip or series of…
1Opinion of the CourtGrosscup, Circuit Judge
Apart from the main idea of the patentees, that the unit in their patented ticket should be expressed in money instead of miles, we do *985not see anything in the patent that the defendants have infringed; for whether the physical differences, introduced hy the patentees, are patentable invention or not, they are so narrow, and make the patent so limited, that the alleged infringing device (differing also in form) does not seem to us to bq included.
Does the adaptation of this new ticket to a unit, based on money instead of miles, make it patentable invention? Originally, mileage tickets were…
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