mechanical skill
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Case Law, Black's (1910)
Definitions from Case Law
From 282 U.S. 704 - Saranac Automatic Mach Corporation v. Wirebounds Patents Co · 1931Most cited · 205 citing opinions
the display of the expected skill of the calling, and involves only the exercise of the ordinary faculties of reasoning upon the materials supplied by a special knowledge, and the facility of manipulation which results from its habitual and intelligent practice
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
As distinguished from invention or inventive capacity, this term means such skill, intelligence, ingenuity, or constructive ability in the adaptation of means to ends as would be possessed and exhibited by an ordinarily clever mechanic in the practice of his particular art or trade. See Hollister v. Benedict & B. Mfg. Co.., 113 U. S. 59, 5 Sup. Ct. 717, 28 L. Eld. 901; Johnson Co. v. Pennsylvania Steel Co.., 67 Fed. 942; Perfection Window Cleaner Co., v. Bos-lev, 2 Fed. 577; Stimpson v. Woodman, 10 Wall. 117, 19 L. Ed. 866.
Defined under Mechanical in Black's Law Dictionary.