9 F.2d 921 | 7th Cir. | 1925
These appeals were heard together on one record. The
. The patents relate to motion picture projectors, and have for their object the production of a kind of projector known as the suit case, or self-contained, type. Appellant contends that “the patents in suit are for the first successfully self-contained, or suit case, portable projector.” All of the elements of the claims are old. The invention is said to reside in the combination of those elements. The insistence is that De Vry was the first p.erson to successfully put these elements into a practicable portable container.- Each element functions in the container just as it does when not in a container. The bringing together of these elements and arranging them so that they are ready, while in the container, to perform their old and well-known functions, is not invention. It is mere aggregation.
The deeree is affirmed.