Richards v. Chase Elevator Co.

Citations

• 159 U.S. 477
• 16 S. Ct. 53
• 40 L. Ed. 225
• 1895 U.S. LEXIS 453

Syllabus

<p>The court, on application to file a petition for rehearing, adheres to Its opinion, reported in 158 U. S. 299, that letters patent No. 308,095, Issued November 18, 1884, to Edward S. tticliards for a grain transferring apparatus, are wholly void upon their face, for want of patentable novelty and invention..</p> <p>While the omission of an element in a combination may constitute invention if the result of the new combination be the same as before; yet, if the omission of an element is attended by a corresponding-omission of the function performed by that element, there is no invention if the elements retained perform the same function as before. '</p> <p>When the result of a combination of old elements is a mere aggregation of the several functions of the different elements of the combination, each performing its old function in the old way, there is nothing upon which a claim to invention can be based.</p>