Legal Opinion
Bullard Co. v. Coe
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 12, 1945No. 8834PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EDGERTON, Associate Justice.
This is a suit under R.S. § 4915, 3.5 U.S. C.A. § 63, to obtain a patent on an apparatus relating to machine tools. The Patent Office granted certain claims but denied those here on appeal. The District Court agreed with the Patent Office that the appealed claims are not shown to be inventive over Svenson patent 1,797,705.
Appellants contend that Svenson is inoperative. An interested witness, appellants’ mechanical engineer, .testified that a certain model would not work, that he tried to make it work and knew of no means whereby it would work. On direct examination…
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- Manhattan Book Casing Mach. Co. v. E. C. Fuller Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1912
- Manhattan Book Casing Mach. Co. v. E. C. Fuller Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1913
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- Application of Thomas L. Jacobs and Ronald S. BauerCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1963
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- International Standard Electric Corp. v. OomsCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1946
- In Re MichalekCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1947
- Application of Arthur P. ShepardCourt of Customs and Patent Appeals · 1963
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