Valvona-Marchiony Co. v. Marchiony

Citations

• 207 F. 380
• 1913 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 1315

Syllabus

<p>1. Patents (§ 157*)—Construction oe Claims—-“Substantially.”</p> <p>“Substantially” is a relative word, which, while it must be used with care and discrimination in a claim of a patent, must nevertheless be given effect by allowing considerable latitude of meaning, where it is applied to such subjects as thickness, as by requiring two parts of a device to be of substantially the same thickness, and cannot be held to require them to be of exactly the same thickness.</p> <p>[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Patents, Cent. Dig. §§ 229-232; Dee. Dig. § 157.*</p> <p>For other definitions, see Words and Phrases, vol. 7, p. 6741.]</p> <p>2. Patents (§ 163*)—Construction oe Claims—Estoppel by Action oe Patent Oeeice.</p> <p>To be estópped by the action of the «Patent Office, a patentee must be shown to have surrendered something which he now claims, in order to obtain that which was allowed.</p> <p>[Ed. Note.—For other cases, -see Patents, Cent. Dig. § 238; Dee. Dig. § 163.*]</p> <p>3. Patents (§ 328*)—Infringement—Apparatus foe Baking Biscuit Cups.</p> <p>The Valvona patent, No. 701,776, for apparatus for baking biscuit cups-for ice cream, construed, and held infringed.</p> <p>4. Equity (§ 69*)—Laches.</p> <p>Mere laches does not usually bar a party, unless under circumstances which work an equitable estoppel against him.</p> <p>[Ed. Note.—For other cases, see Equity, Cent. Dig. §§ 197-199; Dee. Dig. § 69.*]</p>