Adams & Westlake Co. v. Peter Gray & Sons, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts; Arthur L. Brown, Judge. Suit in equity by the Adams & Westlake Company against Peter Gray & Sons, Incorporated. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
PUTNAM, Circuit Judge.
This case relates to a patent, No. 651,-782, issued June 12, 1900, to William S. Hamm, on an application dated on May 16, 1898, for improvements in signal lamps. The facts of the case are so fully stated in the opinion of the District Court, passed down on July 2, 1913, 206 Fed. 303, that we have no occasion to recite them at length. Except as stated herein, we agree with that opinion that the difficulty in the alleged invention is “in finding any new principle of operation, or a result new in kind, as distinguished from an improved result due to a better and more…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Battin v. TaggertSupreme Court of the United States · 1854
- Adams & Westlake Co. v. Peter Gray & Sons, Inc.District Court, D. Massachusetts · 1913
3Cited by2 opinions
- Oriental Tissue Co. v. Louis De Jonge & Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1916
- Oriental Tissue Co. v. DejongeCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1918