Smith v. Whitman Saddle Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OP CONNECTICUT. The Whitman Saddle Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of tbe laws of the State of New York, brought this bill of complaint in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Connecticut, against Charles D. Smith and Benjamin A. Bourn,' citizens of the State of Connecticut, and doing business in the city of Hartford, under the firm name and style of…
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APPEAL PROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OP THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OP CONNECTICUT. The Whitman Saddle Company, a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue of tbe laws of the State of New York, brought this bill of complaint in the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Connecticut, against Charles D. Smith and Benjamin A. Bourn,' citizens of the State of Connecticut, and doing business in the city of Hartford, under the firm name and style of Smith, Bourn & Co., for the alleged infringement of a patent for a “ design for saddles,” No. 10,844, dated September 24,…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Fuller
Section 4929 of the Revised Statutes provides that: “ Any person who, by his own industry, genius, efforts and expense, has invented and produced any new and original design for a manufacture, bust, statue, alto-relievo or bas-relief; any new and original design for the printing of woollen, silk, cotton or other fabrics; any new and original impression, ornament, pattern, print or picture to be printed, painted, cast or otherwise placed on or worked into any article of manufacture; or any new, useful and original shape or configuration of any article of manufacture, the same not having been…
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