Legal Opinion
Wilson v. Chickering
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts
Decided February 21, 1883PublishedCited by 2 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the CourtLowell, C. J.
This is a suit for infringement of the patent, No. 169,931, granted to W. E. Ulman, for an improvement in piano-forte pedals. The defendants demur because the owner of the patent is not made a party. The sole plaintiff is Epaminondas Wilson, doing business as E. Wilson & Co., and he alleges an assignment to him by one Jacob Ulman, who was the owner of the whole patent, and whom, for convenience, I shall call the patentee, of the exclusive right to manufacture and sell the patented article in and throughout the United States for 10 years from June 1, 1877.
The defendants argue that the grant is…
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