Muller v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis

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1. ““The improved method of manufacture commences after the spirals have been wound and interwoven together in the customary way. The first step is to clip the ends of the spirals evenly, by one transverse cut, by a pair of shears. Then the end of each spiral is cut by a pair of cutting pliers, to bring the ends in the right shape for bending in. All the ends of the spirals are then bent. The edge is finished by pressing or flattening. The entire invention consists in bending inward the ends of the spiral. In this there is no inventive genius. The idea of bending in, rather than of soldering, the ends, or of closing the ends of the spirals, was an idea which would naturally suggest itself to the worker in wire, and did not partake of invention, and the steps by which the bending was accomplished were the ordinary work of the skilled artisan (citing Pearce v. Mulford, 102 U. S. 112 [ 26 L. Ed. 93 ]; Hollister v. Benedict Manuf’g Co., 113 U. S. 59 [ 5 Sup. Ct. 717 , 28 L. Ed. 901 ]).””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tiffany v. Paper Products Co.