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Although could be py the infringer, he must do so at hilil.own expenlile,and as the result of his own industry. It would be wrong to perJilit him to bodily, from a copyrighted book, tables, facts, and statistics, and hand them over to the printer in the form the copyrighter has prepared them, merely because it was more convenient for the printer. If he were permitted to do this, he would avail himself directly of the industry and expense to which the person who copyrighted the work was subjected. I think it therefore plain that, to a certain extent, the defendant has infringed complainant's copyright. But, in order to entitle the com· plainant to an injunction, he must show affirmatively, beyond any doubt, that he has complied with the copyright law. I think, so far as the book, volume 9, for 1893, is concerned, there is a grave doubt as to whether the complainant complied strictly with the law. It is a fair conclusion of fact from the testimony that some books of the defendants were sent out before the copyright was perfected. In the absence of this positive proof, I think it would be unjust to allow a temporary injunction, the effect of which would be substantial confiscation of the defendants' books. A temporary injunction may be allowed against the defendants in favor of the complainant for'sonlm::h of his book as is shown by Gocher's affidavit was pirated from complainant's book. But if the defendants will give a bond in the sum of $ , conditioned to pay such damages as the com· plainant may recover in case, on final hearing, he shows his right to a permanent injunction, he may issue the books which he has prepared for publication. But he will not be permitted to finish any more than are now printed.
SMITH et al. v. HAMILTON. ' (Circuit Court, D. Vermont. October 12, 1895.) PATENTs-"--INVEN'l'ToN-'l'RuSSES. Patent No. 455,771, to L. A. Smith and another, for a truss for hernia, held valid, in view of the simplified and improved construction, which results in giving greater freedom of motion to the limbs and body without impairing the effectiveness of the instrument; and held, also, that the first claim was infringed by defendant's device.
This was a bill in equity by L. Anton Smith and another against Jamim H. Hamilton for alleged infringement of a patent. J. Clement Smith, for plaintiffs. Sherwin M. Flint, for defendant. WHEEl.ER, District Judge. This suit is brought upon patent No. 455,171, dated July 14, 1891, and granted to the plaintiffs, for a truss for hernia, having a body spring, for holding the pads, arched past the hips to about the same height at front and back, and held by a belt at the back, and resting in an open, oblique slot through a post fastened to the pad by a screw from the slot through that end of the post into the pad, which is adjusted to, and held in
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place by a set screw through the other end of the post into the slot, and there pressing upon the spring. The claims.are for: "(1) .A. truss, substantially as described, consisting, essentially, of the body spring, having its ends curved rearwardly in an arched manner, and brougIit down to an altitude approximating that of the pad-receiving portion; the pad; the post having the oblique slot, the screw-tapped hole above the slot, and the screw hole beneath the slot; the screw for securing the post to the pad; and the screw for securing the pad to the spring,-substantially as specified. (2) The pad, in combination with the post having the oblique slot, the screw-tapped hole above the slot, and the screw hole beneath the slot; the screw for securing the post to the pad; and the screw for securing the pad to the spring; and the spring,-all substantially as specified."
The answer sets up patents Nos. 202,842, dated April 23, 1878, and granted to Leon T. J. Lubin; 347,171, dated August 10, 1886, and granted to Alberto Giralt; 364,482, dated June 7, 1887, and granted to Charles Oluthe; and 439,141, dated October 28, 1890,-as anticipations, and admits using and selling a few trusses like one, shown by an exhibit, which is like that of the patent, except that the pad is adjusted to, and held in place by, a bar, with a tightening screw on that end of the post, pressing upon the spring, instead of by the setscrew, but denies that this is an infringement. No evidence as to the anticipations has been produced; but the patents, which are to be considered as they appear. No. 202,842 shows a truss made of two or more bands, separated, in a flexible casing, and a screwthreaded.stud connected by intermediate devices to a pad at one end, and having a slot across the other for receiving, and adjustment to place upon, the bands, and to be held there by a nut turning upon the screw, and binding upon the bands. in the slot. No. 347,171 shows a truss band with a pad adjustable to"and.retainable in place upon it by, a split ball clamping the band, and a clip clamping the ball, tightened by a screw. No. 364,482 shows a truss with a body spring curved over the hips, with back pads at an angle of about 45 degree's abo'Ve front spring pads,' adjusted and held :by a screw.between bends in the body spring. No. 439,141 sh0'Ysa truss having a straight belt with a bend in front, upon which spring pads are adjusted to, and held in place by, a stud with a kerf across the end, into which the bend is held by a binding nut. The first and. last of these have pads adjustable to, and retainable in place by, a stud, through the end of which the band passes, and is bound by a nut on the end of the stud, to of which the fastening (Yf the defendant's post to the spring is as much like as it is to thatof, the patent. The third has a body spring curved over the hips, partly like that of the patent. But neither of all shows a body spring <lurvoo over the hips down to near a level withtbe front, nor the simple fastening of the post, by the screw through it, to the pad, claimed' in the patent, and used' in the trusses of the defendant. Simplicity, compactness, and adaptation to movements of the person, are very essential in these instruments; and whoever dispenses with any of the devices, although they are small, brings them closer together, or shapes them to greater freedom of motion, although but little, without impairing their effect upon the rupture, increases their usefulness accordingly. Dispensing with all but the screw (in the
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UNION PAPER-BAG MACH. CO. et al. v. WATERBURY et aL (Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. 1. PATENTS-INVENTION-PAPER BAGS.
October 23, 1895.)
In making paper bags from a continuous tube there Is no patentable Invention In changing the sequence of previously known operations so as to bend Inward the bellows fold as soon as the tube Is distended, and thereby economize material. 58 Fed. 566, afllrmed.
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SAME.
The Deering reissue, No. 10,083, for an Improvement In the manufacture of paper bags, Is void for want of Invention. 58 Fed. 566, at'firmed.
A.ppeal from the Circuit Court of the United States' for the S()uth· ern District of New York. This was a suit in equity by the Union Paper·Bag Machine Company and the Hollingswm:th & Whitney Company against James M. Waterbury and others for alleged infringement of a patent relating to the manufacture of, paper bags. The circuit court rendered a decree for complainants, awarding an injunction and an accounting, 39 Fed. 389. Defendants afterwards filed a bill of review, and introdufjednew evidence, and, after a hearing thereon, the court va·