Legal Opinion
Foster v. Crossin
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Rhode Island
Decided October 18, 1890PublishedCited by 10 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the Court
Gray, Justice.
This is a bill in equity to restrain the infringement of two patents, applied for and issued in 1884, for designs of jewelry pins, the one representing a spoon and the other a table fork. The specification of the first patent (omitting the introductory paragraph and the description of the drawings) is as follows:
“The leading features of my design consist in aplate, the outside and front surface of which is made to represent a spoon, with the continuous outline edge of the plate turned backward for a nearly uniform distance from its front, and also having an engraved, chased, or…
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