Columbia Wire Co. v. Kokomo Steel & Wire Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. The appellant, Columbia Wire Company, is the owner of letters patent No. 365,723. issued June 28, 1887, to A. J. Bates, and this appeal is from a decree dismissing its bill for infringement thereof for want of equity.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Indiana. The appellant, Columbia Wire Company, is the owner of letters patent No. 365,723. issued June 28, 1887, to A. J. Bates, and this appeal is from a decree dismissing its bill for infringement thereof for want of equity. The patent specifies, as the subject-matter of the invention, “improvements in wire-barbing machines,” and the mechanism is a combination and arrangement of old means in the art for making barbed wire, “in which short pointed barbs are cut from a wire, then coiled around one or both of the strand…
1Opinion of the CourtSeaman, Circuit Judge
The evidence is convincing, as well as undisputed, that the three-wheel combination of the Bates patent achieved success and popularity in the production of barbed wire, with great improvement in the speed and accuracy of the operation, and thus made desirable advance in the barb-wiring art. In reference to the contention that the patent is invalid for want of invention—that it involved “nothing more than mechanical skill” to so improve the two-wheeled combination disclosed in an earlier patent, No. 270,646, issued to Edenbom & Griesche in 1883—it is sufficient to remark that the assumed…
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