Court Opinion

ID: 8761851
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-11-26 12:09:55.081916+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:01:37.361315
License: Public Domain

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.
I do not feel at-liberty to disregard the express direction contained in the mandate of the Court of Appeals; and, in accordance with that direction, the decree must, therefore, declare that the patent is valid, and that claim 1 has béen infringed. Merely to decree now (as the defendant proposes) that the patent is valid so far as claim 1 is concerned would be to modify the decree and mandate of the Court of Appeals in an importan! respect, with regard to which I do not think that I have any discretion.
So, also, concerning the costs in the Circuit Court. It is true that the decision of the Court of Appeals is' particularly directed to claim 1 ot the patent, and that the language of that court in reference to claims 3 and a may perhaps, in strictness, he regarded as dictum. But, even thus regarded, it is certainly indicative of the appellate court’s opinion concerning the validity of these two claims and their infringement by the defendant, and cannot fail to have a strong influence upon the discretion of the Circuit Court when it comes to be exercised upon the apportionment of the costs that have accrued below. 1 hold, therefore, that the complainant is entitled to recover full costs in the Circuit Court, and to recover them now, after proper taxation by the clerk. Costs hereafter accruing will be dealt with in the final decree.
A master will be appointed in a short time to take the usual account.