Seattle Box Company, Inc., D/B/A Seattle-Tacoma Box Company v. Industrial Crating & Packing, Inc., and James F. Rennels

How courts have described this case

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

• suggesting that “a matter of a mere clarification of language to make specific what was always implicit or inherent” is not a substantive change
• stating that to exercise its equity powers properly, the trial court “must carefully weigh standard equitable considerations ”
• stating that, in making legal determinations, the court may rely on expert testimony to aid in understanding the patent
• rejecting indefiniteness where specification identifying the purpose of a device could support a standard for measuring the degree needed to be considered
• treating the word “substantially” in the phrase “substantially equal to” as “a word of degree”
• considering whether there was a long period of sales before the patent reissued for which damages cannot be assessed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).