Worden v. Fisher
District Court, E.D. Michigan
In Equity. This was a suit brought to recover for the infringement of letters patent No. 8,581, reissued to Henry M. Curtis and Alva Worden for an improvement in whip holders.
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In Equity. This was a suit brought to recover for the infringement of letters patent No. 8,581, reissued to Henry M. Curtis and Alva Worden for an improvement in whip holders. The improvement consisted substantially of a whip holder divided throughout its length into two parts, of a double conical shape, hinged together in the center by a pivotal joint, so that the holder will disclose a large opening for the reception of the whip, and will he closed at its top around the whip when the same is inserted into the holder. The defences were: (1) That Curtis and Worden were not the first and joint…
1Opinion of the Court
Brown, D. J.
This suit is prosecuted by the defendants in the casé of Searls v. Worden, ante, 501, to recover damages of the defendants, who are selling whip sockets made by Searls, and purporting to be constructed under the patent issued to Scott, but which were in almost exact imitation of the whip sockets made by the complainants, and which are confessedly an infringement pf their patent, if the same be valid. In Searls v. Worden we held that the Scott patent was valid, and that complainants were infringers; but it seems now that Searls has abandoned, to some extent at least, the…
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