Smith v. Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This ivas a bill in equity filed by the appellees against the appellant for an infringement of reissued letters-patent No. 1904, for “ improvement in artificial gums and palates,” granted March 21,1865, to the appellees, as assignees of John A. Cummings. The bill prayed for an injunction, discovery, account, and assessment of damages.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts. This ivas a bill in equity filed by the appellees against the appellant for an infringement of reissued letters-patent No. 1904, for “ improvement in artificial gums and palates,” granted March 21,1865, to the appellees, as assignees of John A. Cummings. The bill prayed for an injunction, discovery, account, and assessment of damages. The original letters-patent No. 48,009, for said improvement, were granted to said Cummings, and bear date June 7, 1864. A decree was entered in favor of the complainants;…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Strong
A brief review of the history and nature of the patent which the complainants allege has been infringed will aid materially in solving the questions presented by this appeal. On the fourteenth day of May, 1852, Dr. John A. Cummings, a dentist of Boston, filed in the Patent Office a caveat to protect an invention he claimed to have made, of certain new and useful im*490provements in the setting and plates of artificial sets of teeth. The description accompanying the caveat indicated with very considerable clearness what the alleged invention was, and the objects sought to be gained by it. The…
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