Cohn v. United States Corset Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
[In equity. Bill by Moritz Cohn against the United States Corset Company for relief for infringement of letters patent No. 137,-893, granted to complainant April 15, 1873, for an improvement in corsets.]
1Opinion of the Court
BLATCHFORD, District Judge.
This suit is brought on letters patent granted to the plaintiff, April 15th, 1873, for an “improve*29ment in corsets.” The specification of the patent says: “Previous to my invention it has been customary, in the manufacture of corsets, to weave the material with pocket-like openings or passages running through from edge to edge, or all stopped and finished off at a uniform distance from the edge, and adapted to receive the bones, which are inserted to stay the woven fabric, and which serve as braces to give shape to and support the figure of , the wearer. This method…
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