Knight v. Rieger’s Empirical Analysis
203 F. 49 · 1913
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
November 1916
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on Fond Du Lac County v. May · Jacobs v. Baker · American Disappearing Bed Co. v. Arnaelsteen · International Mausoleum Co. v. Sievert
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““He relies on the familiar rule that a new combination of several old things may be patentable. It is not in any wise suggested in the evidence that the projecting tongues of the crypt shelves in complainant’s device play any part-in ventilating or draining the crypts. That system o£ ventilation will work just as well whether the shelves are secured in the bade wall or not. * * “The crypts are drained and ventilated precisely as they were in the prior art. The shelf is secured In the back wall in the way In which many shelves time out of mind have been secured in all sorts of structures. Under such circumstances what the patentee claims is not a combination but an aggregation. * 9 ® “In view of the admitted state of the prior art, I can find nothing even remotely suggestive of invention in anything which the plaintiff claims to nave done.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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