Barrett v. Hall
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
At law. Case for the infringement of a patent granted for “A new and useful improvement, being a mode of dying and finishing all kinds The patent was granted on the 9th day of September, 1818; and after reciting, that the plaintiffs had alleged, that they had invented “a new and useful improvement, being a mode of dying and finishing all kinds of silk woven goods,” granted to the plaintiffs “the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending…
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At law. Case for the infringement of a patent granted for “A new and useful improvement, being a mode of dying and finishing all kinds The patent was granted on the 9th day of September, 1818; and after reciting, that the plaintiffs had alleged, that they had invented “a new and useful improvement, being a mode of dying and finishing all kinds of silk woven goods,” granted to the plaintiffs “the full and exclusive right and liberty of making, constructing, using and vending to others to be used, the said improvement, a description whereof is given in the words of the said Abner Stearns and…
1Opinion of the Court
STORY, Circuit Justice.
This case has been argued for the plaintiffs, as fully and as ingeniously as its merits wEl allow, upon the *923same principles and reasonings, which were pressed upon the court at the trial. If they have failed to convince the understanding of the court, it is because in some instances the premises, and in others, the conclusions are radically unsound and inadmissible. I pass over all the learned lecture, as to what constitutes matter of fact and what of law, and what are the relative rights of courts and juries as to matters of fact, because no novelty and no instruction…
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