Potter v. Crowell
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Ohio
[This was a motion for a provisional injunction to restrain the defendants from infringing letters patent for an “improvement in sewing machines,” granted to Allen B. Wilson, November 12, 1850 [No. 7,776], reissued January 22, 1856 [No. 346], and extended for seven years from November 12, 1864.] 2
1Opinion of the Court
WITHE Y, District Judge.
Complainants are, by assignment from A. B. Wilson, owners of the right secured to the latter by reissued letters patent, numbered 346, for improvement in the feed motion of sewing machines. They allege in their bill, that defendants infringe their rights by vending for use the “New England Sewing Machine,” and apply to the court, by motion, for a temporary injunction to restrain defendants from selling the infringing machine. The defendants have answered, and affidavits are presented by both parties.
The fact is conclusively established, that the New England sewing…
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