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Decisions It Cites
Leeds & Catlin Co. v. Victor Talking Machine [213 U.S. 301, 1909]
Decisions That Cite It
Great Atlantic & Pacific v. Supermarket Equipment [340 U.S. 147, 1950]
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[NOVEL] {1} We conclude that Butler's effort, by the use of a combination claim, to extend the monopoly of his invention of an improved form of chuck or coupler to old parts or elements having no new function when operated in connection with the coupler renders the claim void. [In an earlier case, in the inventor's] combination, [one element] the disc not only performed a new function but performed it in combination with another new element - the swinging arm which carried the needle.
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