...321,390, as claimed by defendants' counsel; nor was it "a change only in form, proportion, or degree, doing substantially the same thing, in the same way, by substantially the same means," as patent No. 321.390. It is true that it was a patent for new combinations of what were old elements...

...carrying forward a now or more extended application of the original thought, a change only in form, proportions, or degree, the substitution of equivalents doing substantially the same thing ln the same way by substantially the same means, with better results, is not such invention as will...

...better results; but it still appears to be a change only in form, the substitution of equivalents doing the same thing in the same way by substantially the same means. According to Smith v. Nichols, 21 Wall. 78 FEDERAL REPORTER. 119, such improvement is not such invention...

...sufficient disclosure of a combination amounting to invention, a substitution by a subsequent claimant of equivalents, doing substantially the same thing in the same way by substantially the same means, but with better results, is not a patentable combination or invention. Van Elpps v. United Box Board...

...carrying forward or new or more extended application of the original thought, a change only in form, proportions or degree, the substitution of equivalents,...thing in the same way by substantially the same means icith 'better results, is not such an invention as will sustain a patent. It is observed in connection...

...mere carrying forward of the original thought, a change only in form, proportions, or degree, doing the same thing in the same way, by substantially the same means, with better results, is not such an invention as will sustain a patent.84 a support where it was needed, where the mechanical device...

...sufficient disclosure of a combination amounting to invention a substitution by a subsequent claimant of equivalents, doing substantially the same thing in the same way by substantially the same means, but with better results, is not a patentable combination or invention. Van Epps v. United States Box...

...structures. - .Thei board cited Smith v. Nichols, 21 Wall. 112, and quoted therefrom as follows: tially the same means with better results, is not such invention as will sustain a patent. Appellant does not contend that his disclosure shows any single new element, but contends that the...

...proportions, or degree, which merely results in the substitution of equivalents doing the same thing by substantially the same means with better results, is not such "invention" as will sustain a patent over the prior art. None of the references cited by the examiners in the case at bar discloses the...

...carrying forward or new or more extended application of the original thought, a change only in form, proportions, or degree, the substitution of equivalents, doing substantially the same thing in the flame way by substantially the same means with better results, is not such invention as will sustain...