111 F. 1002 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Hampshire | 1899
This is a design patent for a monument, and is numbered 22,856, and dated October 24, 1893. The patent seems to cover two elements: First, the shape or configuration of the monument; and, second, the decorative design for its ornamentation. As to the first, there is nothing in the details or in the combination which caxi be accepted as new and original. All the features in detail must be treated as old, for the storxecutting art, as known and practiced from a very early period, has covered all conceivable shapes axid forms in monuments and statuary, and the combination does not, as it seems to me, amount to a new and original design. The secofxd element of the design—that relating to ornamentations—comes nearer to patentable invention than the
The bill is dismissed, without costs.