Burden v. Corning
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
This was a bill in equity, filed [by Henry Burden against Erastus Corning, John F. Winslow, and Erastus Corning, Jr.] to restrain the defendants from infringing letters patent [No. 17,665] for an “improved machine for making horse shoes,” granted to complainant June 30, 1857. The portions of the specification material to the present controversy were as follows: “Be it known, that I, Henry Burden, of the city of Troy,. county of Rensselaer, and state of New York, have…
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This was a bill in equity, filed [by Henry Burden against Erastus Corning, John F. Winslow, and Erastus Corning, Jr.] to restrain the defendants from infringing letters patent [No. 17,665] for an “improved machine for making horse shoes,” granted to complainant June 30, 1857. The portions of the specification material to the present controversy were as follows: “Be it known, that I, Henry Burden, of the city of Troy,. county of Rensselaer, and state of New York, have invented a new and useful improvement in machinery for making shoes for horses and mules; and I hereby declare that the…
1Opinion of the Court
HALL, District Judge.
This is a bill for an injunction and an account, founded upon the alleged infringement of letters patent granted to the plaintiff, and dated June 30, 1857. The patent is for “a new and useful improved machine for making horse shoes;” and the specification states that the “machine is designed to make shoes from rods as they are discharged from the train of the rolling mill, and without reheating.”
On May 11, 1863, the plaintiff filed a disclaimer of the third claim of his patent; and, on the hearing, it was not claimed that the defendant had infringed, except in respect to…
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