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 83 FEDERAL REFOBTEB. �liberal, though arbitrary. It is a pity that a valuable inven- tion should be lost by an inadvertence, but the policy of the law is well founded, and it must be carried out. �I find that this invention was "on sale" more than two years before the application, and therefore the patent was void. The patent having been sustained at the first hearing, the complainant should have his costs to the time when the rehearing was ordered. Of the rehearing itself I give no costs to either party. �Decree accordingly. ���Belt V, Cbittenden and othera. �(Oireuit Court, D. Minnesota. Februaiy, 1880.) �Patent — Want op Notbitt — Cobktjgated Iron Applied to thb Roop OB SiBES OF A BuiLDiNa. — If the ordinary form of corrugated iron, •when applied to the roof or aides of a building, does not give suffl- cient air spaces, there is no novelty ia making them larger, and dimin- ishing the surface of iron at the point where it is naUed to the wood- work, although the objection may be thereby remedied. �Bame — Samb — Thicknbss op Ikon — Nail Holeb — Pormatton op Joints. — There is no novelty in the fact that the iron, at the point of contact with the wood, is double in thickness, or that the nail holes at the joints may be made elongated in order not to interfere with the nails in case of expansion or contraction, lengthwise, of the corrugations ; nor in the manner of forming the joints oonnecting the several sections of sheathing. �Suit in Equity on final hearing upon pleadings and proof. �Homer G. Eller, for complainant. �Henry J. Horn and Harvey Officer, for defendants. �Nelson, D. J. This suit is brought to recover damages for the infringement of letters patent No, 177,386, granted to the complainant and P. E. Perkins May 30, 1876, and an injunction is prayed. The interest of Perkins was assigned to the complainant May 22, 1878. �The patent was granted "for an improvement in metallic ����