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well be forbidden by a court of equity. No injury to the defendants can follow such a prohibition as I have decided. The public be protected thereby from fraud, and the complainants relieved from danger of injury. If any doubt can be fairly entertained as to defendants' purpose in using a rose-colored capsule in the way they do, as was said by Judge in Association v. Piza, 24 Fed. Rep. 151, "it is not unreasonable to resolve any doubt that may remain in favor of the complainants." Let a decree be entered in conformity with this opinion. CORNELL v. BATAILLE. (Circuit Court, S. D. New York. July 5, lSD3.)
P,\TEK'rS FOR INVENTIONs-INFRINGE'fENT-GA'I'Es.
Letters patent No. 213,119, issued March 11, 1879, to Maddox & Humphries, for an improvement in gates, covers It gate consisting of a series of upright pivots, a series of cross and connecting braces pivoted to the pickets at two or more central points, and having upper and lower points of connection, arranged to slide vertically within or upon the pickets, Whereby the are adapted to slide upon a base support across the gate opf.'uing withont changing their parallelism or their positions vert;Helm, that the patent is not infringed hy a gate of lattice work pivoted. at the intersection 1iJ,e lazy tong-s, and supported by an upright bar, from which it is extended, with a parallel bar in the middle, and anotll('r at the on tel' end, sliding on a base support.
In Equity. Suit by John M. Cornell against Achille Bataille for infringement of a patent. Bill dismissl'il. Charles N. Judson, for plaintiff. Frances for defendant. WHRELER, District .Judge. This snit is brought upon patent No. 21:3,119, dated March 11, 1879, and granted to Maddox & Humphries, for an improvement in gates, upon those granted to :Maddox in patent 1'0. 191,()84, dated June 12, 1887, which consisted in a series of pickets connected together by lines of knuckle joints, so as to be drawn out to close a space, and fold up to open it. This improvement consis:(s in eombilling a series of cross and conbraces with the pickets, instead of the knuckle joints, to support the gate, and keep the pickej-s parallel. The first claim, now in controversy, is for "a gate for hallways and other places, consisting of a series of upright pickets, and a series of cross and oonnecting braces or bars pivoted to the pickets at two or more eentral points, and having upper and lower points of connection, arranged to slide vertically within or upon the pickets, whereby the latter are adapted to slide upon a base support across the gate opening without changing their parallelism or their positions vertically, substantially as described, for the purpose specified." The alleged infringement is a gate of lattice work pivoted at the intersections like lazy tongs, and supported by an upright bar from which it is extended, with a parallel bar in the middle, and another at the
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outer end, sliding upon a base support across the space to be closed. These three upright bars are said to constitute the series of upright pickets, and the lattice work, the cross and connecting braces of the first claim of the Maddox & Humphries patent. The gate of that patent is constituted of upright pickets supported by large spaced braces in the form of pivoted lattice work. The defendant's gate is constituted of pivoted lattice work supported by large upright ballS called "pickets." These gates are said, in behalf of the plaintiff, to be, in substance, the same. But the bars at the ends of the defendant's gate are of the frame of the gate, such as most or all gates have, and are not pickets. The middle bar might properly be called a picket, but there is no series of pickets, constituting the body of the gate, such as the plaintiff's patent calls for. The plaintiff's gate is, in substance, a picket gate; the defendant's, a lattice gate. The improvement of Maddox & Humphries, involved here, consisted in putting coarse lattice work on pickets to make a picket gate. The defendant does not use that improvement, nor make such a gate. Let a decree be entered that the defendant does not infringe, and that the bill be dismissed. DEERE & CO. v. J. I. CASE PLOW WORKS. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Seventh Circult. No. 66. PATENTS FOR INVENTIONS-NOVELTy-CORN CULTIVATOR.
May 10, 1893.)
planks, protectors secured thereto and extending backward therefrom, and diverging arms, provided with shovels or scrapers, secured to the smoothing planks opposite the protectors, and for the combination of the smoothing planks, the protectors, the arches connecting the smoothing planks with the protectors, and the diverging arms, are void for want of novelty, as each of the elements is old, and their combination produces no new result.
Z, 1887, to King & Morgan, for a corn cultivator, complising smoothing
The first and second claims of letters patent No. 3G7,530. issued August
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. In Equity. Bill by Deere & Co., a corporation, against the J. I. Case Plow Works, for alleged infringement of a patent. Decree for defendant. Affirmed. Statement by WOODS, Circuit Judge: The appellant, 3 corporation of Illinois, claiming title under the patentees, sued the appellee, a corporation of "risconsin, for infringement of the first anil second claims of letters patent No. ;llii.:' issued August 2, 1887, to King & :Morgan. In the specification it is said: "Our invention is an improved cultivator for cultivating listed corn, and it consists in certain novel and peculiar features of constrllction, hereinafter fully described and claimed," The claims are of the following tenor: "(1) A cultivator, comprising thft smoothing planks, the protectors secured thereto and extending backward therefrom, and the diverging arms, provided with shovels or scrapers, securerl to the smoothing planks on opposite sides of the protectors, SUbstantially as set forth. (2) The combination of the smoothing planks, the protectors, llie