Adams v. Burke
Supreme Court of the United States
' Appear from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts; the case being thus: On the 26th day of May, 1863, letters-patent were granted to Merrill & Horner, for a certain improvement in coffin-lids, giving to them the exclusive right of making, usiug,- and vending to others to be used, the said improvement.
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' Appear from the Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts; the case being thus: On the 26th day of May, 1863, letters-patent were granted to Merrill & Horner, for a certain improvement in coffin-lids, giving to them the exclusive right of making, usiug,- and vending to others to be used, the said improvement. On the 18th day of March, 1865, Merrill & Horner, the patentees, by an assignment duly executed and recorded, assigned to Lockhart & Seelye, of Cambridge, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, all the right, title, and interest which the said patentees had in the invention…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Miller
The question presented by the plea in this case is a very interesting one in patent law, and.the precise point in it has never been decided by this court, though cases involving some of tile considerations which apply to it have been decided, and others of analogous character are frequently recurring. The vast pecuniary results involved in such cases, as well as the public interest, admonish us to proceed ith care, and to- decide in each case no more than what is directly iu' issue.
We have repeatedly held that where a person had purchased a patented machine of the patentee or his assignee,…
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