Redgrave v. Singer
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Suit for infringement of letters patent No. 603,738, for a bagatelle board, granted to Montague Redgrave May 10, 1898. On final hearing.
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In Equity. Suit for infringement of letters patent No. 603,738, for a bagatelle board, granted to Montague Redgrave May 10, 1898. On final hearing. The following is the opinion of the examiners in chief: The claims appealed are: “(1) In a bagatelle board, having a shooting, trough provided with countersunk end, top plates having, in said countersunk top plate, a longitudinal slot, in combination with a spring-impelled block and a detachable handle, extending outwardly from said block through the slot, arranged to move reciproeatingly therein, said handle extending to the horizontal plane of…
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
I am of the opinion that the improvement specified in the claim of the complainant’s patent (No., 603,738, granted to Montague Redgrave May 10, 1898, for an improvement in bagatelle boards) is destitute of patentable novelty, and; consequently that the claim is invalid. The reasons for this conclusion are so satisfactorily set forth in the decision of the examiners im chief of the patent office, of December 14, 1893, rejecting the application for the patent, in which I fully concur, that an independent-discussion would serve no useful purpose.
The bill is dismissed, with…
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