Martin v. Wall
Martin v. Wall
Opinion of the Court
The parties are practically the same as in the suit of Bellows v. United Electrical Mfg. Co. and Martin (160 Fed. 663), opinion in which is filed at this session, Wall being a seller of instruments made by the Mecograph Company under which name Bellows does business.
The keys complained of are made under the Coffe patent which we sustained in the other suit, and are covered by claim 11 therein considered, but in details of structure on the finger side of the lever they differ from the mechanism shown in that patent and covered by several of its claims. They more closely resemble the device of the patent in this suit. The Coffe patent has a lever movable in one direction
The opinion of the Circuit Court is affirmed'as to claims 1 and 2, with costs. Claim 3 seems to have been included in the decree by inadvertence resulting from an error of printing in the official copy of the patent, the last line of claim 2 and the first line of claim 3 having been omitted. No charge of infringement of the third claim was ever pressed. Under these circumstances, costs should not be withheld.
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