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nor after arrival at its place of destination.
U. S. v. Carr, 2 Mont.
For the reasons given in this opinion, this court has heretofore quashed an indictment accusing the claimant of violating the laws prohibiting the introduction of spirituous liquors into the Indian country, founded upon the facts set forth in the pleadings herein, and for the same reasons the demurrer to the plea of the claimant is overruled.
UNITED STATES GLASS CO. v. ATLAS CO. et al. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. December 6, 1898.)
1.
PATENTS-INFRINGEMENT OF PROCESS-IDENTITY OF METHODS.
Two processes cannot be said to be substantially alike where the successive steps which they involve are different, and, where several of the steps which are requisite to the one are wholly omitted from the other, Identity of method cannot exist. The Arbogast patent, No. 260,819, for an improvement In the method of manufacturing glassware, construed, and held not infringed.
2.
SAME-METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GLASSWARE.
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania. This was a suit in equity by the United States Glass Company against the Atlas Glass Company, Robert J. Beatty, president, and J. W. Paxton, secretary and treasurer, for the infringement of a patent. From a decree dismissing the bilI, the complainant appeals. George H. Christy, for appellant. Wm. L. Pierce, for appellees. Before ACHESON and DALLAS, Circuit Judges, and BUTLER, District Judge. DALLAS, Circuit Judge. This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court for the Western district of Pennsylvania dismissing a bill for alleged infringement.of letters patent No. 260,819, issued on July 11, 1882, to Philip Arbogast, for an improvement in the method of manufacture of glassware. 88 Fed..493. The thoroughness and particularity with which the court below has dealt with the material subjects of controversy reliev:ea us fl'om undertaking any extended or detailed discussion of them. .We are unable to concur in the learned judge's understanding of the patentee's disclaimer, but it is not necessary, to the acceptance of the conclusion arrived at by him upon the whole case, that we shouJ,n do so; for, even if all that was disclaimed was a process of pressing and blowing in a single mold, yet we are at opinion that Arbogast neither invented nor claimed any method which the appellees have appropriated. His invention was a meritorio:us one, and the validity of the patent which secured it to him need not be questioned. It should not be narrowed by illiberal construction, but the scope accorded to it by the court below is quite as ample as, in view of the prior state of the art and of its own terms,it is entitled to have. To give it any more inclusive interpretation) it would) we think,
CARY MFG. CO. V. NEAL.
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be necessary to hold that it vested in the patentee, not only a monopoly of all that he had invented, but also of all that might thereafter be added to the art in the same line of advance. The claim, after informing us that the improvement consists in pressing the mouth or neck to iinished form with a dependent mass of glass, and then withdrawing the plunger, proceeds to state that the article is then to be removed from the press mold, and finally inserted in a separate mold, and blowed in, to form the body. With the process thus described the method of the defendants does not conflict. They have adopted means, and very ingenious means, by which any necessity for removing the article from the press mold, and inserting it in a separate mold, is avoided; and in the manufacture of "Mason Jars," in which the defendants are engaged, their resultant distinctive mode of procednre is, if not essential, decidedly advantageous. Two processes cannot be said to be substantially alike where the successive steps which they involve are different; and where, as in this instance, several of the steps which are requisite to the one are wholly omitted from the other, identity of method cannot exist. But this subject has been fully and adequately treated by the learned judge of the court below, and need not be further considered. We think his opinion fully supports the decree; and as it is clear to us, as it was to him, that infringement was not shown, that decree is affirmed.
CARY MFG. CO. v. NEAL et al. (Circuit Court, S. D. New York. L PA.TENTS-ANTICIPATION-DESIGN PATENT.
November 22, 1898.)
An inventor who has obtained a patent for an article of manufacture, which patent discloses the design thereof, cannot, on an application made two years later, obtain a valid patent for such design.
'2.
SAME-DESIGN FOR Box-FASTENER.
The Cary design patent, No 28,142, for a box-fastener, is void for anticipation by patent No. 450,753 to the same patentee for the article itself.
This is a suit in equity by the Cary Manufacturing Company against Bernard B. Neal and others for infringement of a patent. A. G. N. Vermilya, for plaintiff. Robert Stewart, for defendants. WHEELER, District Judge. This suit is brought upon design patent No. 28,142, applied for October 15, 1894, dated January 11, 1898, and granted to Spencer C. Cary, for a box-fastener. The specification 'ltates that: "The design consists, primarily, in a box-fastener having ends bounded by curved lines and upwardly or downwardly extending prongs, with openings in the material, the main surface of which is plain, and the essential features are a plain, flat body, bounded at the sides by substantially straight lines, and at each end by a curved line, having near each end openings in the face, and prongs extending from the sides of the openings at substantially right angles to the surface of the main body of the fastener,"