YALE LOCK COMPANY v. GREENLEAF


117 U.S. 554 (1886)

YALE LOCK MANUFACTURING COMPANY v. GREENLEAF.

Supreme Court of United States.

Decided March 29, 1886.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Frederic H. Betts for appellant.

Mr. George Ticknor Curtis and Mr. Edmund Wetmore for appellee.


Mr. JUSTICE WOODS delivered the opinion of the court.

It is conceded that the damages for which the court rendered its decree were allowed for the infringement of the first claim only of the Rosner patent, which, therefore, is alone to be considered upon this appeal.

The invention covered by this claim was described as follows in the specification:

"This invention consists in combining with a set of permutation

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