Yale Lock Manufacturing Co. v. Greenleaf
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FEQM.THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE' SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was a bill in equity brought by the appellee, Halbert S. Greenleaf, to restrain the infringement by the appellant, the Yale Look Manufacturing Company, of the first and fourth claims of the reissued letters patent granted to George Rosner, July 25, 1371, for an “improvement in permutation locks.”
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APPEAL FEQM.THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE' SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This was a bill in equity brought by the appellee, Halbert S. Greenleaf, to restrain the infringement by the appellant, the Yale Look Manufacturing Company, of the first and fourth claims of the reissued letters patent granted to George Rosner, July 25, 1371, for an “improvement in permutation locks.” The original patent bore date September 18, 1860. The defence was that the alleged invention and substantial and material parts thereof claimed as new, were, prior to any invention thereof by said George…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woods
It. is conceded that the damages for which the court rendered its decree were allowed for the infringement of the first claim only of the Rosner patent, which, therefore, is alone to be considered upon this appeal.
The invention covered by this claim was described as follows in the specification:
' “ This invention consists in combining with a set of permu tation wheels or tumblers, constructed each of a rim and center, an arrangement of bolts or equivalent devices, which fasten and unfasten said rims and centers by the use of a key inserted through holes in the cams in the wheels, by which…
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