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· 5/2/1887

Snow v. Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway Co.

Citations

  • 121 U.S. 617
  • 7 S. Ct. 1343
  • 30 L. Ed. 1004
  • 1887 U.S. LEXIS 2079

Syllabus

<p>The first claim in letters-patent No. 127,933, granted to the Buffalo Dental Manufacturing Company as assignee of George B. Snow, June 11, 1872, for a new and useful improvement in steam bell-ringers is limited to a combination in which the piston and piston-rod. are detached from each other, and is not infringed by the use of steam bell-ringers constructed and operated in conformity to the drawings and specifications of letters-patent granted August 25, 187Í, to Charles H. Hudson for-a new and useful improvement in steam bell-ringing apparatus.</p>

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  • “it was clear from the specification that there was ‘nothing in the context to indicate that the patentee contemplated any alternative’ embodiment to the one presented”
  • it was clear from the specification that there was “nothing in the context to indicate that the patentee contemplated any alternative” embodiment to the one presented

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Judges: Matthews

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