Ellis v. Shaw

MARTIN, Acting Associate Justice.

Appeal in a patent interference case. The contest is between the parties Ellis and Shaw; the party Muench having abandoned the case. The invention relates to so-called heat-insulating boards or panels, sometimes called lath boards, composed of disintegrated vegetable fiber, designed to serve in the place of lath in a wall as a base or foundation for the plaster. It may be said in general terms that each of the competing inventions provides for boards of this material, having grooves, indentations, or depressions upon one side, which is to be the…