Bankers' Utilities Co. v. National Bank Supply Co.

JAMES, District Judge.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court denying a temporary injunction to restrain the making of what are called book form savings banks, which the appellants claim are an infringement of letters patent No. 1,460,716, claim 6. This patent was first construed by this court in Bankers’ Utilities Co. v. Pacific National Bank, 18 F.(2d) 16. It was there held that all of the claims of the patent, except claim 6, were invalid, as showing no invention over the prior art. The court, by the late Judge Dietrich, declared that all of the elements involved were old,…