Dryfoos v. Friedman

The orators own design letters patent No. 4,802, dated April 11, 1871, and granted to William H. Walton for a design for printed material for .gored skirts, consisting of printing a series of gore-shaped patterns, made to match around the lower edge in a skirt, the narrow end of one opposite the broad end of another, on a piece of woven fabric, so as to fill the width of the fabric, leaving blank spaces for seams, with dotted lines in the blank spaces by which to divide .the fabric into parts having each a pattern of proper shape to be sewed together into a full skirt. The claim is for the…