Union Paper-Collar Co. v. Leland
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Bill in equity [by the Union Paper-Collar Company against Emerson Leland] for an injunction to restrain alleged infringement of reissue letters-patent [No. 5,259] dated Jan. ■24, 18TB, 2 for paper collars and cuffs, granted W. E. Lockwood; and for an account.
1Opinion of the Court
LOWELL, District Judge.
This suit is brought to restrain the infringement of the second reissue cf W. E. Lockwood’s patent of 1859; this reissue being granted in 1873. The specification declares the invention to •consist of a collar or cuff having a paper surface, imitative of the textile surface of a collar or cuff of textile fabric; that in carrying ■out his invention, Lockwood uses a fabric composed of paper and muslin, or equivalent fabric, having a smooth, white, polished or enamelled paper surface to represent that of starched linen. It then describes one mode of making the imitation of…
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