Parks v. Booth
Supreme Court of the United States
Appear from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe'Northern District of Obio. This was a suit by Jonathan L. Booth, against George Parks, Grant B. Turner, William A. Taylor, and James Vaughan, ■partners, under the name and style of Turner, Parks, & Co.,’ ’for an alleged infringement of the complainant’s reissued letters-patent, for an improvement in grain-separators. The letters were a second reissue.
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Appear from tbe Circuit Court of tbe United States for tbe'Northern District of Obio. This was a suit by Jonathan L. Booth, against George Parks, Grant B. Turner, William A. Taylor, and James Vaughan, ■partners, under the name and style of Turner, Parks, & Co.,’ ’for an alleged infringement of the complainant’s reissued letters-patent, for an improvement in grain-separators. The letters were a second reissue. The original letters, No. 25,484, were granted to Booth .Sept. 20, 1859; reissued Sept. 25, 1860, No. 1043; . and again reissued Novi 29; 1864, No. 1826. The court rendered a decree May…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clifford
Power to promote the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive ■right to their respective writings and discoveries is expressly vested.in Congress by the Constitution. Pursuant to the power there conferred, the enactment of Congress provides that the original jurisdiction of patent cases shall be exclusive in the circuit courts or the district courts exercising circuit court, powers. Rev. Stat.,-sects. 629-711.
Provision is also made that a party, whose rights, secured by valid patent are invaded by infringement, may seek his…
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