Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit December 6, 1926, No. 80 (Diamond Match Co. v. Sun Match Corp.)

lead-opinion

HOUGH, Circuit Judge

(after stating the facts as above). It may be, and we think is, admitted that in its entirety the combination of parts producing a mechanism capable of doing what this machine does is an invention of importance, and both by its commercial success and the surmounted difficulties .