H. L. Judd & Co. v. Fowler
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This was a suit by Henry A. Fowler, John H. Lingley, and. Samuel Fowler against H. L. Judd & Co., a corporation, for infringement of a patent. On the hearing in the circuit court the following opinion was rendered; Wheeler, District Judge.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This was a suit by Henry A. Fowler, John H. Lingley, and. Samuel Fowler against H. L. Judd & Co., a corporation, for infringement of a patent. On the hearing in the circuit court the following opinion was rendered; Wheeler, District Judge. This suit is brought upon letters patent No. 4fiG,-940, dated January 12, 1892, and granted to the orators Henry A. Fowler and John H. Lingley, as inventors, and to the orator Samuel Fowler, as assignee, for an improvement in curtain rods, to be held between opposing…
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.
This appeal calls in question the correctness of a decree of the circuit court for the southern district of New York, which sustained the validity of letters patent No. 466,940, dated January 12, 1892, and issued to the complainants Eowler and Lingley as inventors, and to the complainant Samuel Fowler as assignee, for an improvement in curtain rods, and which also adjudged that the defendant had infringed the first claim of the patent. On July 12, 1889, the inventors, Fowler and Lingley, and Carroll W. Dodge, applied for letters patent for an improved curtain rod,…
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