Kraus v. Fitzpatrick
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. On bill for injunction. Bill for injunction by Leopold Kraus et al. against James Gr. Fitzpatrick et al., for infringement of design patent No. 13, 620, dated February 13, 1883.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
This suit is brought upon design patent No. 13,620, dated February 13, 1883, and granted to Frank Welton, assignor to the orators, to run seven years, for a corset. The principal features of the design, as specified in the claim, are a ribbed band at the lower edge, extending from the extreme front up over the hip, and down to the rear portion, and a series of ribs each side of the central hip line, beginning at the top and extending downward, and diverging onto the ribbed band. The shape given to the corset by extending the lower edge np over, instead of around, the hip, appears lo acid to…
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