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tionofijJ.atlaw, and held accoulltable' for every infringement which laid at its door.,' Beyond this the court cannot go; it conl:!ider matters not embraced in the issues joined by the enter upon a course of speculation and presume wholesale, pJra:cy from the proof now before the court, or from the alleged unfairbusihess methods of the defendant in itsrelatlons with the complainant. The court can discover nothing in the case of Cal· laghan Y., M:yers, which is at 'Variance with these views. As the complainant stated at the argument that it did not require the court to make any comparison of the additional paragraphs, before to, with complainant's publications, or any finding in relation' thereto, it follows that the complainant is entitled to a decree for an injunction and an accounting, limited, however, to the paragraphs reported by the master, with costs.
SHUTE v. MORLEY SEWING MACH. CO. et aI. (Circuit Court of Appeals, First Circuit. No. lOS. t.PATlI:NTS-'VALIDITY AFFIRMED.
October 31, 1894.) ·
Claims 2 and 13 of the Morley, patent, No. 236,350, for a machine for sewing buttons on fabrics, sustained. Decree of the circuit court modi· 1I.ed so as to be limited to these Claims, and then affirmed. 62 Fed. 291.
S. SAME--DECREE BROADER THAN FINDINGS-COSTS ON ApPEAL.
The decree in a patent cause, which is broader than the findings, will becQlTected by the appellate court of its own motion, 8JDd no costs wlll be allOWed to either party, since it is the duty of complainant's solicitor to drl1w out a proper decree. '
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of This was a suit in equity by the Morley Sewing Machine Company and the Morley Button Sewing Machine Company against BenjaminA. Shute and Abbie J. Shute, copartners, trading as Benjamin A. Shute & Co., for the alleged infringement of letters patent No. 236,350, granted January 4, 1881, to James H. Morley, and to E. S. Fay and' Henry E. Wilkins, assignees of said Morley. A decree was rendered for complainants (62 Fed. 291), and defendants appeal. JohnL. S. Roberts (Ohas. Levi Woodbury, of counsel), for appellants. Frederick P. Fish, William K. Richardson, and Ambrose Eastman,. for appellees. PUTNAM, Circuit Judge, and NELSON and WEBB, District Judges. PER CURIAM. We agree fully with the .reasoning and con· elusion of tlle judge who sat in the circuit court in this case, but we willnptfce two ml,ttters not of in his opinion. The appellaJ;l;t maintains that in Sewing Machine Co. v. Lancaster, 129 U. Sup. Ct. 299, the supreme court construed t'he claims in
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contest in this case as containing the element of a fabric-feeding mechanism. The alleged infringing machine in that case infringed these claims on either construction, and the supreme court had no occasion to consider the question involved in the case at bar, and does not specifically state that it had considered it. Our observations in the opinion passed down October 12, 1894, in King v. McLean Asylum, 64: Fed. 331, as to matters not necessarily considered by the court in reaching a result, disposes of this proposition of the appellant. The Dennis and Capron patent came into the case as an afterthought, and, though now strenuously urged, is so clearly lacking in point-as such afterthoughts are apt to be-that it needs no discussion, except to remark that in its operation the very first step is essentially unlike the automatic principle of the Morley machine, because the feeding of the hooks and eyes is done singly, by hand, instead of in mass. The patent in suit contains 18 claims, and the prayers of the bill relate to the patent as a whole. The decree below directed that an injunction issue "according to the prayer of the bill," although only claims 2 and 13 were in issue. It has been many times urged that the public has an incidental interest in patent litigation, which throws a duty on the court to nO'tice certain matters of its own motion. This is one of them; and in a patent cause a decree sholl1d not go which is broader than the findings of the court. Heretofore we have been content merely to correct the decree below, but, as the duty of drawing out a proper decree rests on the solicitor for the complainant, we will hereafter endeavor to protect the court by a proper adjustment of costs. As the appellant assigned no error on this account, he is not entitled to costs in this behalf. The decree of the court below will be modified so as to be expressly limited to claims 2 and 13, and, as thus modified, is affirmed. Neither party will recover any costs of appeal.
KIRKPATRICK v. POPE MANUF'G CO. (Circuit Court, D. Connecticut. No. 398. PA.TENTS-ROYA.LTIES-CONSTRUCTION OF CONTRACT.
November 23, 1894.)
K. assigned to P. certain patents for velocipede saddles, and P. agreed to manufacture, and place on the market, saddles containing the improvements, or some of them, described and claimed in the patents, and to use reasonable facilities to promote the sale of saddles of that class; to keep accounts of all of such saddles sold; to make return thereof on the first of each year; to pay to K., within 20 days after such return, 25 cents on each saddle sold by P. during the preceding year; and to pay to K. half the net receipts from licensees and infringers. After the royalties had been paid' for two years, a narrow construction was put on the patents in a suit by P. against a third person for infringement. Thereupon, P.'s attorney suggested that returns should be made annually as but that payment should be deferred till determination of the case by the supreme court, when, if the patents were sustained broadly, settlement for infringements could be had at the same time. K. assented to this, and for several years, till the decision had been affirmed,
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