Coon v. Wilson
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR . THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This -was a suit in equity, brought, in May, 1878, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, for the infringement of reissued letters patent No. 8,169, granted to the plaintiff, Washington Wilson, as inventor, April 9, 1878, on an application therefor filed March 11, 1878, for an “ improvement in collars ” (the original patent;' No. 197,-807,'…
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR . THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK. This -was a suit in equity, brought, in May, 1878, in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, for the infringement of reissued letters patent No. 8,169, granted to the plaintiff, Washington Wilson, as inventor, April 9, 1878, on an application therefor filed March 11, 1878, for an “ improvement in collars ” (the original patent;' No. 197,-807,' having been granted to him December 4, 1877). The specifications and claims of the original and reissued patents were- as…
1Opinion of the Court
Mr- Justice Blatchford
delivered the opinion of the court. He recited the facts as above stated, and continued:
The defendants’ collars have bands which are continuous from end to end of the collar, and are not in two parts, nor divided by any vertical or other seam, at the centre of their length or elsewhere. They have no short or sectional bands, which start from the centre of the collar, or from any point between the centre and the ends. The band is not shorter than the length of the collar. In the original patent,-the invention is stated to be a collar having short or sectional bands, that…
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