Legal Opinion
Landesmann v. Jonasson
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided September 4, 1887PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
This suit is brought upon letters patent No. 296,021, dated April 1, 1884,. and granted to the orator for an improvement in that class of ladies’ cloaks known as “Russian Circulars,” which consists in extending the inner front parts to the back seams, making a close-fitting waist, and leaving the outer part loose and flowing. The defenses set up and relied upon are that this improvement does not constitute a patentable invention; and that, if it does, the orator was not the first inventor. The statute authorizing the grant of patents seems to contemplate that the invention for which a patent…
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