Cohn v. United States Corset Co.
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 for an infringement of the complainant’s letters-patent, Avhich are as follows: — United States oe America.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court-of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This was a suit for an infringement of the complainant’s letters-patent, Avhich are as follows: — United States oe America. “ To all to whom these presents shall come: “Whereas, Moritz Cohn, of New York, N. Y., has presented to the Commissioner of Patents a petition praying for the grant of letters-patent for an alleged new and useful improvement in corsets, a description of which invention is contained in the specification, of which a copy is hereunto annexed and made a part hereof, and has complied…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
A careful examination of the evidence in this case has convinced.us that the invention claimed and patented to the plaintiff was anticipated and described in the English provisional specification of John Henry Johnson, left in the office of the Commissioner of Patents on the '20th of January, A.D. 1854. That specification was printed and published in England officially in 1&4, and it is contained in volume 2d of a printed publication' circulated in this country as early as the year 1856. It is, therefore, fatal to the validity of the plaintiff’s patent if, in feet, it does describe…
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