Bone v. Commissioners of Marion Cty.

Citations

• 251 U.S. 134
• 40 S. Ct. 96
• 64 L. Ed. 188
• 1919 U.S. LEXIS 1829

Syllabus

<p>Patent No. 705,732, (claims 1, 3, 5, 16 and 17,) to Frank A. Bone, for the combination, with a retaining wall having a heel, of a metal structure embedded vertically in the wall and obliquely in the heel, so that the weight of the retained material upon the heel of the metal structure will operate to retain the wall in vertical position; or of such a structure having also a toe opposite to the heel; held anticipated in principle by other patents and publications. Pp. 136, et seq.</p> <p>Patentable novelty or originality cannot be asserted of a device which has previously been described in printed publications in foreign countries although unknown in this one and to the patentee. Rev. Stats., § 4886; c. 391,29 Stat. 692. P. Í44.</p> <p>249 Fed. Rep. 211, affirmed.</p>