HEMPHILL CO. v. COE

No. 7506.

119 F.2d 5 (1941)

HEMPHILL CO. et al. v. COE, Commissioner of Patents.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

February 10, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. W. Shepard, of Washington, D. C., and Roy F. Lovell, of Pawtucket, R. I., for appellant.

Wm. Wallace Cochran and Edwin L. Reynolds, both of Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and RUTLEDGE, Associate Justices.


MILLER, Associate Justice.

The claims upon which appellant seeks a patent relate to a knitting machine, constructed and adapted to knit hosiery. The Patent Office and the District Court both held that no invention was involved. We have arrived at the same conclusion. The lower tribunals relied upon three references which, while differing in some respects from appellant's machine, reveal arrangements for producing stitch variations, from which a mechanic skilled in...

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