“Contributory infringement is the intentional aiding of one person by another in the unlawful making, or selling, or using of a third person’s patented invention”
How later courts described this case
- “Contributory infringement is the intentional aiding of one person by another in the unlawful making, or selling, or using of a third person’s patented invention”
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
SMITH, Circuit Judge
(dissenting). Believing that the alleged patent of the appellant covers nothing but ordinary mechanical skill applied to the prior art, I think the patent is void, and this case should be affirmed. I therefore respectfully dissent from the foregoing opinion.