Sullivan v. Redfield
U.S. Circuit Court for New York
This was an application for an injunction against the violation of a patent right. The complainant stated in his bill, that having ascertained by a course of experiments, that the resistance of the water against the bow or head of a vessel, when moving, is greatly diminished by keeping her as close in the wake after another vessel as possible with convenience, and perceiving the result to be favourable to a new and useful application of steam to the conveying of passengers…
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This was an application for an injunction against the violation of a patent right. The complainant stated in his bill, that having ascertained by a course of experiments, that the resistance of the water against the bow or head of a vessel, when moving, is greatly diminished by keeping her as close in the wake after another vessel as possible with convenience, and perceiving the result to be favourable to a new and useful application of steam to the conveying of passengers in a separate boat from the engine, he, on the 4th of December, 1816, obtained a patent “for a new and useful'…
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Circuit Justice.
The application in this case is for an injunction to restrain the defendants and their associates from navigating the steam boat Commerce and safety barge Lady Clinton, which the bill alleges they are doing in violation of a patent right of the complainánt. The application comes before the court on notice of the motion duly served. The defendants have appeared by their counsel, but have read no affidavits, or shown any thing in opposition to the motion, except what arises upon the bill itself. Nor has the complainant fortified his application with any thing except…
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