General Gaslight Co. v. Matchless Mfg. Co.

Citations

• 129 F. 137
• 1904 U.S. App. LEXIS 4738

Syllabus

<p>1. Patents — Invention—Designs.</p> <p>Originality and tbe exercise of the inventive faculty are as essential to give validity to a patent for a design as for a mechanical invention.</p> <p>2. Same.</p> <p>Whenever ingenuity is displayed in producing a new design which imparts to the eye a pleasing impression, even though it be the result of uniting old forms and parts, such production is patentable.</p> <p>3. Same — Inebingement—Design fob Lamp.</p> <p>The Humphrey design patent, No. 35,481, for a cluster gas lamp, shows a novel design and discloses invention. Also held infringed.</p> <p>4. Same.</p> <p>Where it appears that, by uniting old elements perceivable in other lamp designs, a new lamp of different contour and construction is produced, and where the collocated elements also impart an ornamental and graceful appearance, not possessed by prior lamp designs, the conception is beyond what an ordinarily skilled workman.is able to achieve.</p> <p>f 1. See Patents, vol. 38, Cent. Dig. § 33.</p>