Sanitary Street Flushing Mach. Co. v. City of Amsterdam

Citations

• 225 F. 389
• 1915 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1267

Syllabus

<p>1. Patents <S=»327—Suit in Equity—Previous Adjudications.</p> <p>The District Court is bound, as to the validity oí a patent, by decisions of the Circuit Court of Appeals holding it valid.</p> <p>[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Patents, Cent. Dig. §§ 620-625; Dec. Dig. <3=»327.]</p> <p>2. Patents <©=>328 — Validity and Infringement—Street Flushing Machine.</p> <p>The Ottofy patent, No. 795,059, for a street flushing machine designed to deliver streams at an angle of 20 degrees or less to the pavement so as to have a scouring effect, was valid, and was infringed by a machine with nozzles so attached that it might, and when in use did at times, discharge water onto the pavement within the angle of 20 degrees.</p> <p>8. Patents <S=»327—Suit in Equity—Previous Adjudications.</p> <p>A decision that a street flushing machine involved in a prior suit had not then been so adjusted and used as to infringe was not an adjudication that the machine of the same make used by defendant was not an infringing machine or was incapable of being so adjusted as to infringe when in use.</p> <p>[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Patents, Cent. Dig. §§ 620-625; Dec. Dig. «=>327.]</p> <p><?^>For other cases see same topic & KEY-NUMBER in all Key-Numbered Digests & Indexes</p>