Royer v. Coupe
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR ’ THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. The case is, stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Blatchfoed
This is a suit in equity, brought-in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, by Herman Boyer against William Coupe and Edwin A. Burgess, co-partners under the name of William Coupe & Co., founded on the infringement of letters patent No. 149,954, granted April 21, 1874, to the plaintiff as inventor, for an “ improvement in the modes of preparing rawhide for belting,” on an application filed December 31, 1872.
The specification of the patent is as follows: “After the removal of the hair from the hide by means of sweating—a process familiar to every tanner — the…
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