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Berlin Mills Co. v. Procter & Gamble Co., 254 U.S. 156 (1920)
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Berlin Mills Co. v. Procter & Gamble Co., 254 U.S. 156 (1920)
Berlin Mills Co. v. Procter & Gamble Company No. 93 Argued November 15, 1920 Decided December 6, 1920 254 U.S. 156
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS
FOR THE SECOND CIRCUIT
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Patent No. 1,135,351, issued April 13, 1915, to Procter & Gamble Company, as assignee of John J. Burchenal, is void for lack of invention as to Claims 1 and 2, claiming, respectively, a homogeneous lard-like food product consisting of incompletely hydrogenized vegetable oil, and a like product consisting of incompletely hydrogenized cottonseed oil. Pp. 161, 164.
The process of changing vegetable oil into a homogeneous, semi-solid, edible substance by acting upon it with hydrogen in the presence of nickel, was known and open to general use, and its application to the manufacture of the food products here in question was such a step as would occur to persons skilled in the art without the exercise of invention. P. 165.
256 F. 23 reversed.
The case is stated in the opinion.
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Harvard: U.S. Supreme Court, 'Syllabus' in Berlin Mills Co. v. Procter & Gamble Co., 254 U.S. 156 (1920). cited in 1920, 254 U.S. 156. Original Sources, retrieved 22 November 2024, from http://originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=NJABZ7A61XTLJA3.
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