Indiana Novelty Mfg. Co. v. Crocker Chair Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The decree of the Circuit Court for the TQastern District of Wisconsin appealed from is one dismissing for want of equity a hill to enjoin the appellee from infringing Letters Patent No. 547,732, dated October 8, 18&5, issued to George W. Marble for a wooden-rim bicycle wheel; and Letters Patent No. 506,430, dated October 10, 1893, issued to Charles I\ Harrington for a wheel. 90 Fed.…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The decree of the Circuit Court for the TQastern District of Wisconsin appealed from is one dismissing for want of equity a hill to enjoin the appellee from infringing Letters Patent No. 547,732, dated October 8, 18&5, issued to George W. Marble for a wooden-rim bicycle wheel; and Letters Patent No. 506,430, dated October 10, 1893, issued to Charles I\ Harrington for a wheel. 90 Fed. 488. The Circuit Court found that both patents had been anticipated in the prior art, and were, therefore, invalid. On the…
1Opinion of the CourtGrosscup, Circuit Judge
While mere results are not ordinarily patentable, many constructions, and many processes — -simple and obvious enough when looked at after the occurrence — have been held to be patentable inventions, not so much because the patentee exerted inventive thought in his immediate work of construction, as because the step taken lay toward the creation of some new aid to the convenience of mankind — some distinct addition to the equipment of civilized life. Such, for illustration, was Glidden’s barbed wire fence, and the Goodyear hard rubber, or Vulcanite. The merit, attributed to this class of…
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