Werk v. Parker
Citations
- 249 U.S. 130
- 39 S. Ct. 197
- 63 L. Ed. 514
- 1919 U.S. LEXIS 2235
Syllabus
<p>The use of horse-hair mats for extracting oil, as abundantly shown in standard and easily accessible books of reference, may be noticed judicially. P. 132.</p> <p>The application in the extraction of cotton-seed oil of mats made of horse hair or other long animal hair, woven in a manner designated, but without improvement in the art of weaving, held not invention, •but merely mechanical adaptation of familiar materials and methods. P. 133.</p> <p>Divisional patents Nos. 758,574 and 758,575, to Robert F. Werk, relating to oil-press mats for use in extracting cottonseed oil, held invalid as to certain claims.</p>
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- holding that the Circuit Court of Appeals “was justified in taking judicial notice of facts that appeared so abundantly from standard works accessible in every considerable library” including “the British Encyclopedia ... [and] the Standard Dictionary of 1894”
- “We deem it clear, beyond question ... that the court was justified in taking judicial notice of facts that appeared so abundantly from standard works accessible in every considerable library.”
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Judges: Pitney
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