Eddy v. Kramer
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania; J. Warren Davis, Judge. Suits by James Francis Eddy and another against Henry E. C. Kramer and others, and against Charles E. Mather, Victor Mather, and Gilbert Mather, copartners trading as Mather & Co. Decrees for complainants, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
The two patents here involved concern the construction of a tin cap, at the top of a yearly calendar pad, which by engagement with a slot in a permanent backboard holds such pad in engagement with the backboard. The court below, in an opinion reported in 247 Fed. 962, found the patents valid and infringed. The facts are fully stated in that opinion, and we avoid restatement by reference thereto.
*228The case turns on validity, and we add nothing to the reported case by a further discussion of details. The question of inventive character of plaintiff’s tin cap was one of…
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- Eddy v. KramerDistrict Court, E.D. Pennsylvania · 1918