Ruggles v. Young

Citations

• 1 MacA. Pat. Cas. 160
• 20 F. Cas. 1331

Syllabus

<p>Interfere:íce — question at issue. — A question raised in connection with an application not in interference cannot be considered by the judge upon appeal.</p> <p>Sm — evidence.—Whether the decision of the Commissioner is correct or erroneous, must appear from the proofs and evidence which have been acted on in the trial before the Commissioner.</p> <p>Evidence — estoppel.—Where a person stands by and hears another person describe a certain invention or improvement as his own, without asserting any claim to the invention, and at the same time seeking further information of the same, the inference will be warranted that the principles of such invention were not at that time known to him.</p> <p>Printing-press — equivalents.—-In a printing-press, an eccentric shaft or pin, passing through or behind the platen, for the purpose of regulating the distance between the platen and the bed, is not the equivalent of an eccentric shaft which passes through the platen and crank arms,- having a handle on the extreme end, the effect of which is to lengthen or shorten the crank-arms, and so throw off or on the impression during the operation of the machine.</p>