James G. Wilson v. George A. Sanford and Robert G. Musgrove
Supreme Court of the United States
This was an appeal frpm the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. The appellant had filed his bill in the court below, setting forth a patent to William Woodworth, dated December 27th, 1828, for a planing machine ; .also an extension,, in. 1842, of said patent for seven years, granted to William W. Woodworth, administrator of the patentee ; an assignment of all right and interest in said extended patent throughout the United States (except…
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This was an appeal frpm the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Louisiana. The appellant had filed his bill in the court below, setting forth a patent to William Woodworth, dated December 27th, 1828, for a planing machine ; .also an extension,, in. 1842, of said patent for seven years, granted to William W. Woodworth, administrator of the patentee ; an assignment of all right and interest in said extended patent throughout the United States (except Vermont) to complainant, Wilson; and a license from Wilson to the defendants to use one machine upon payment of $ 1,400, as…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Taney
The. bill in this case was filed by the appellant aghinst the appellees in the Circuit Court of the United States for the, District of Louisiana.
The object of the bill was to set aside á contract made by the appellant with the appellees, by-which he had granted them permission to use, or vend to others to be used, one. of Woodworth’s planing-machines, in the cities of. New Orleans and Lafayette; and also to obtain an injunction against the further use of the machine, upon the ground that it was an infringement of his patent rights. The appellant states thát he was the assignee of the monopoly…
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