Burdell v. Denig
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern Ohio
[At law. Action by William Burdell, D. M. Smith, and S. T. Smith against Augustus M. Denig and William Lee for damages for infringement of patent William Burdell, in 1851, bought of the assignees of the patent [No. 7,776] granted to Allen B. Wilson, November 12, 1S50, for an "improvement in sewing machines,” the exclusive right under said patent for Franklin county, Ohio.
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[At law. Action by William Burdell, D. M. Smith, and S. T. Smith against Augustus M. Denig and William Lee for damages for infringement of patent William Burdell, in 1851, bought of the assignees of the patent [No. 7,776] granted to Allen B. Wilson, November 12, 1S50, for an "improvement in sewing machines,” the exclusive right under said patent for Franklin county, Ohio. About the same time, he purchased the right for the same county, under the patent [No. 8,294] granted to Isaac M. Singer, August 12, 1S51, also for improvements in sewing machines [reissued October 3, 1S54 (No. 278)]. The…
1Opinion of the Court
SWAYNE, Circuit Justice.
This was an action brought to recover damages for the infringement of a patent, the title to which had become vested, by successive assignments, in the plaintiffs. The matter in controversy was the feeding mechanism invented by A. B. Wilson, and covered by his patent, which patent, as already remarked, had passed, by a series of assignments, to the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs proved the use, by the defendants, of several machines involving this mechanism. They proved further, that it was the announced purpose of one of the plaintiffs, who had assigned to the others, to…
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- Blake v. RobertsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1877
- Black v. ThorneSupreme Court of the United States · 1884
- National Car-Brake Shoe Co. v. Terre Haute Car & Manuf'g Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Indiana · 1884
- Graham v. Geneva Lake Crawford Manuf'g Co.District Court, E.D. Wisconsin · 1880
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