 Thus, in "Cuno Engineering Corp. v. Automatic Devices Corp." in 1941, the Court veered away from "Hotchkiss" to invalidate an automatic cigarette lighter for cars that used a thermostat to pop out the lighter so that the user did not have to hold it in place in the socket until it heated sufficiently.In the Second Circuit, Judge Learned Hand had held the device patentable, ruling in an echo of "Hotchkiss", "If patents are to go to those who contribute new appliances that are beyond the limited imagination of the ordinary skilled person, this invention seems to us to merit a patent.