Hawley v. Mitchell
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
3 [This was a suit in equity for an injunction and an account brought against Eben Mitchell, Charles Butters, and Henry Rust, copartners under the firm-name of Mitchell, Butters & Rust, by the complainant Robert B. Hawley, assignee by mesne assignment, under date of March 19, 1870, of the extended term of letters patent No. 9,700, for certain new and useful improvements in machinery for sizing and felting hats, granted to James S. Taylor on the 3d day of May, 1853. The…
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3 [This was a suit in equity for an injunction and an account brought against Eben Mitchell, Charles Butters, and Henry Rust, copartners under the firm-name of Mitchell, Butters & Rust, by the complainant Robert B. Hawley, assignee by mesne assignment, under date of March 19, 1870, of the extended term of letters patent No. 9,700, for certain new and useful improvements in machinery for sizing and felting hats, granted to James S. Taylor on the 3d day of May, 1853. The defendants were the .successors in business of the firm of How & Mitchell; and it was admitted at the hearing that the…
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPLEX, Circuit Judge.
Letters-patent of the United States were duly issued to James S. Taylor, on the third day of May, 1853, for new and useful improvements in machinery for sizing and felting hats, which letters-patent were afterwards renewed and extended according to law, for the further. term of seven years from the third day of May, 1867.
■ In November, 1860, during the term of the original patent, the patentee conveyed to Abner L. Rayley “the exclusive right to make’’and use, and to license’to others the right to use, the said machines in the states of’Massachusetts and New Hampshire,…
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