Legal Opinion
Schriber-Schroth Co. v. Cleveland Trust Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided November 7, 1938No. Nos. 3—5PublishedCited by 125 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Stone
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The principal question for decision is whether the court below rightly sustained the validity of two patents by including in the combination constituting the alleged invention of each an element which was not in terms described in one, and the description of which in the other was added only by amendment to the application after it was filed.
Respondent, the Cleveland Trust Company, is the as-signee in trust of some eighty patents relating to pistons of the type employed in internal combustion engines for automobiles, under a pooling agreement to which an automobile manufacturer and a number…
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