Seabury v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
76 F. 456 · 1896
Citation profile
2
cited by 2 later decisions
October 1906
most recently cited
2 federal appellate ·
Relationships
Relies on McClain v. Ortmayer · White v. Dunbar · Keystone Bridge Company v. Phoenix Iron Company · Railroad Company v. Mellon · Stirling Co. v. Pierpoint Boiler Co.
Most-quoted passages
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““While the patentee may have been unfortunate in the language he has chosen to express his actual invention, and may have been entitled to a broader claim, we are not at liberty, without running counter to the entire current of authority in thisv court, to construe such claims to include more than their language fairly imports. Nothing is better settled in the law of patents than that the patentee may claim the whole or only a part of his invention, and that, if he only describe and claim a part, he is presumed to have abandoned the residue to the public.” Citing Railroad Co. v. Mellon. 104 U. S. 112 , 26 L. Ed. 639 ; Merrill v. Yeomans, 94 U. S. 568 , 24 L. Ed. 235 ; Burns v. Meyer, 100 U. S. 671 . 25 L. Ed. 738 ; Sutter v. Robinson, 119 U. S. 530 , 7 Sup. Ct. 376 , 30 L. Ed. 492 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““(1) A sulphur candle, provided with a surrounding band of metal, projecting slightly above the upper side or end of the main portion or body of the said candle, substantially as described.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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