Boyd v. Janesville Hay Tool Co.

Citations

• 158 U.S. 260
• 15 S. Ct. 837
• 39 L. Ed. 973
• 1895 U.S. LEXIS 2250

Syllabus

<p>Under letters patent No. 300,687, granted June 17,1884, to John M. Boyd for improvements in hay elevators and carriers, the patentee, in view of the state of tiie art, was entitled, at .most, only to the precise devices mentioned in the claims, and that patent, so construed, is not infringed by machines constructed under patent No. 279,889, granted June 19, 1883, to 1?. B. Strickler.</p>