Farmers' Handy Wagon Co. v. Beaver Silo & Box Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; Ferdinand A. Geiger, Judge. Suit in equity by the Farmers’ Handy Wagon Company against the Beaver Silo & Box Manufacturing Company. Decree for defendant,, and complainant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin; Ferdinand A. Geiger, Judge. Suit in equity by the Farmers’ Handy Wagon Company against the Beaver Silo & Box Manufacturing Company. Decree for defendant,, and complainant appeals. Appellant filed its bill to restrain infringement of the three claims of patent No. 814,067, granted to C. W. McClure on March 6, 1906, for a silo, and also certain acts charged to constitute unfair competition and for an accounting. The invention relates more particularly to an independent rigid door-frame for the vertióle…
1Opinion of the CourtKohlsaat, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The only serious question presented is that of the validity of the patent. If valid, appellee’s device clearly infringes. It was so found by the District Court. The use of the Z-bar or the T-bar instead of the L-bar, and the location of the sealing pressure between the margins of the door and the inner faces of the marginal staves, do not serve to materially differentiate the two. The patent in suit, in the absence of prior patents or uses anticipating the same, is of a character to meet *735the requirement of the statute as to invention. It is in an art which…
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