United States Court of Appeals For the Ninth Circuit . IVITI\/£SS£S: ATrORtiif (No Model.) 4 Sheets—Sheet 4 J. CHERNEY & W. C. DAVIS. ORE CONCENTRATOR. No. Patented Feb. 3, 1885. i^.t»^».;.c»^>T.^. t pertRs CO. iTASM/NcroM, a. c 118 All that all this amounts to is that the patents arenumerous and are for improvement inventions differ-ing only in the configurations of the surfaces of thetable decks. The field is therefore one in which thegreat chain of cases to which we have referred haslogical and controlling application. It follows that themonopoly created by an
United States Court of Appeals For the Ninth Circuit . IVITI\/£SS£S: ATrORtiif (No Model.) 4 Sheets—Sheet 4 J. CHERNEY & W. C. DAVIS. ORE CONCENTRATOR. No. Patented Feb. 3, 1885. i^.t»^».;.c»^>T.^. t pertRs CO. iTASM/NcroM, a. c 118 All that all this amounts to is that the patents arenumerous and are for improvement inventions differ-ing only in the configurations of the surfaces of thetable decks. The field is therefore one in which thegreat chain of cases to which we have referred haslogical and controlling application. It follows that themonopoly created by an ore concentrator patent isextremely narrow. It is a field in which form is every-thing, and in which, as Mr. Justice BRADLEY puts it,each inventor is entitled to his own specific form. And that is just. Here is a multitude of patents,each entitled to the presumption of validity whichattends its issue. The inventions described in themdiffer only in minute particulars. Each patentee isentitled to a monopoly of his own invention. We cangive every one of them his own invention provided wegive no one of them any more. Is not that the onlyway to do even justice to them all? This gives us the measure of Mr. Wilfieys i
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