Holland v. Shipley

Citations

• 127 U.S. 396
• 8 S. Ct. 1089
• 32 L. Ed. 185
• 1888 U.S. LEXIS 2001

Syllabus

<p>A patent for a lead-holding tube of a pencil, having at the lower end two or more longitudinal slots, a screw-thread inside, and a clamping-sleeve outside, each part of which, as well.as the' combination of two or more slots with the sleeve, or pi a single slot with the screw-thread, -has been previously used in such tubes, is void for want of invention. '</p>