FEDERAL REPORTER.
del' as parts of claims 5 and 6, the defendant does not infringe. U the use of the udder is no part of those claims, then the reissue, as to those claims, claims inventions not. suggested or indicated in No. 146,012, and is invalid. ·It be that the proofs for final hearing may put 'the case in a differeIitaspect, but, as the case now stands, the foreg<;>ing are sufficient to require that the motion for injunction be denied. The same disposition is made of the motions as to Flagg and Boker.
ROEMER
v. NEWMAN and others.
lOircuit Court, D. New Jer8ey. December 22, 1883.) 1. PATENTS FOR INVENTION-INJUNCTION-CONTEMPT.
Where defendants have consented to· a decree that a patent is valid, and an injunction restraining them from using the mechanism which it embraces, they must obey the writ until it is dissolved, and cannot, in a proceeding fol.' contempt, assail the validity of the whether complainant allowed defendants the privilege of using the fastening claimed to infringe his patent, the rule to show cause why they should not attached for contempt should not be madeabso]ute, but the decree 111'0 con!eBBo should be reopened. the release of damages canceled, and the case proceed to final hearing. ..
2. SAME-AGREEMEKT BETWEEN PARTIES-EvIDENCE-DECREE REOPENED. As the evidence in this case is conflicting, and leaves the question as to
On Attachment for Contempt. NIXON, J. This is a motion for attachment for contempt against the defendants for violating an injunction. The petitioner brought an action in this court against the defen!lants for the infringement of letters patent No.195, 233. No answer was filed. A decree pro can. was entered, and an injunction was issued restraining the defendants allegation from any further infringement of said letters patent. of the petition is that the injunction has been violated. The defend. ants set up three grounds of defense: (1) That the complainant's patent is void; (2) that before the decree pro can. was taken the complainant conceded to the defendants the right to use the fastening which is' now complained of; and, (3) that there has been no infringement. . 1. With regard to the first defense, it is only necessary to say that the defendants are not allowed inthis proceeding to assail the validity of the patent on which the injunction has been issued.. They consented to the decree that the patent was valid, and to the injunction restraining them from )Ising the mechanism which it embrar,ed, and they must obey the order of the writ until it is dissolved. Pfhllips v. City oj Detl'oit, 16 O. G. 627. Briesen tf; Betts, for the motion. A. Q. Keasbey tf; SOilS, contra.
DAVISV. FIlEDERICKS.
99
2. The bulk of the testimony has been directed to the second point, to-wit, whether the complainant agl'eed with the defendants that the manufacture and use of a certain fastening, marked in this proceeding Exhibit A, would be regarded by the complainant asa. violation of the injunction. There is no doubt that the manufacture· complained of, amI which is alleged to be a violation, no more nearly resembles the invention claimed by the complainant's patent than does Exhibit A; and if the testimony shows that at the time of agreeing to the decree it was understood between the parties that Exhibit A was not an infringement, the complainant should not be allowed, on this motion for contempt, to stop its manufacture and use. The testimony is conflicting. The complainant denies that there was any admission made or license granted for the use of Exhibit A, and the defendants produce several witnesses who are sworn to prove it. lt is difficult to determine where the truth lies, and it is charitable to hope that there was an honest misunderstanding between them. At the time that the decree pro con. was allowed against the defen.dants, the complainant signed a paper releasing them from all claims for damages and profits. Possibly both parties were acting under 8 misapprehension, and the best solution of the case, in my judgment, is for both to agree that the deeree should be opened, the release of damages canceled, and the suit proceed to a final hearing. At all events, I am not willing, on the evidence taken, to make the rule to show cause why the defendants should not be attached for contempt absolute. The same is discharged, but, under the circumstances, without costs.
DAVIS
v.
FREDERIOKS.
(Circuit (Jour,', 8. 1. 2.
n. NtJl.O
York. January 2,1384.)
PATENTS FOR INvENTIONS-PATENTABILITY.
Letters patent No. 84,803, granted to Thomas B. Davis, on December 6, 1868, for an improvement in scoops, held to embody a patentable invention. A which required calculation and experiment beyond mechanicalskill and good workmanship is entitled to be classed as inventive. A new thing produced, betterfor some purposes than had been produced before, although it appears easy of accomplishment when seen, is such success as is within the benefits of the patent law.·
SAME-CALCULATION AND EXPERIMENT CONTRASTED WITH MECHANICAL SKILL.
a.
Where an inventor gives another an article embodying his invention, and, without his knowledge or consent, it is shown to others, who manufacture and sell the same for two years prior to an application for a patent, this will not , constitute a public use within the meaning of the acts of 1836 and 1839, and render the patent void
SAME-PUBLIC USE.
In Equity.