Singer Manufacturing Co. v. Cramer
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This controversy relates to an alleged infringement by the petitioner, a New Jersey corporation, of United States letters patent No. 271,426, issued to the respondent on January 30, - 1883, for “ a new and improved sewing machine treadle.” For convenience the petitioner will be hereafter referred to as 'the Singer Company and the respondent as Cramer.
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CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT. This controversy relates to an alleged infringement by the petitioner, a New Jersey corporation, of United States letters patent No. 271,426, issued to the respondent on January 30, - 1883, for “ a new and improved sewing machine treadle.” For convenience the petitioner will be hereafter referred to as 'the Singer Company and the respondent as Cramer. The treadle device used by the Singer Company on its sewing machines, which it was charged infringed the Cramer patent, was covered by letters patent No. 306,469, dated October…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice White
Sixty-eight exceptions were taken by the Singer Company during the trial of the action in the Circuit Court and. were pressed upon the attention of the Circuit Court of Appeals in sixty-nine assignments of error. These exceptions were all in effect relied upon in the argument at bar; but from the view we take of the case it is unnecessary to consider and decide, any other assignment than that based upon the exception to the refusal of the court, at the close of all the evidence, to instruct a verdict for the defendant on the ground that “no infringement whatever had been shown.” ' As in each…
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