Expanded Metal Co. v. Board of Education of St. Louis

Citations

• 111 F. 395
• 49 C.C.A. 406
• 1901 U.S. App. LEXIS 4391

Syllabus

<p>1. Patents—Anticipation.</p> <p>Letters patent No. 297,382, April 22, 1881, to John F. Golding, for a metallic screening, are anticipated by English provisional specification No. 2,125, July 26, 1802, by Thomas Long, for open metallic work.</p> <p>2. Same— Claim Limited by Deference to Specification.</p> <p>A claim for an article of manufacture formed substantially as set forth in the specification is limited to an article made substantially in the way described I11 the specification, and such an article formed by a substantially different process is not an infringement of the claim.</p> <p>(Syllabus by the Court.)</p>