Lamaute v. Steele

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• “courts should scrutinize combination patent claims with a care proportioned to the difficulty and improbability of finding invention in an assembly of old elements”
• 'an assembly of old elements,' 'unites old elements with no change in their respective functions'
• “an assembly of old elements,” “unites old elements with no change in their respective functions”
• “Two and two have been added together and they still make only four.”
• “Each of the elements combined in the patent was known in the prior art.”
• “The conjunction or concert of known elements must contribute something; only when the whole in some way exceeds the sum of its parts is the accumulation of old devices patentable.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).