Burnell v. Chown
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Ohio
This was a bill in equity by A. S. Burnell against C. M. Ohown, E. G-. Chown, and the Chown Commercial Company, to enjoin an alleged infringement of a copyright. The bill avers that the plaintiff is a citizen and resident of the state of Iowa, that he conceived the plan of gathering and imparting the information referred to in the opinion, and used the same by circulating bound copies of said information to subscribers in various localities.
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This was a bill in equity by A. S. Burnell against C. M. Ohown, E. G-. Chown, and the Chown Commercial Company, to enjoin an alleged infringement of a copyright. The bill avers that the plaintiff is a citizen and resident of the state of Iowa, that he conceived the plan of gathering and imparting the information referred to in the opinion, and used the same by circulating bound copies of said information to subscribers in various localities. He charges that (he defendant, after having fully acquainted himself with the plaintiff’s conception and plan of adapting the same to the uses of…
1Opinion of the Court
EICKS, District Judge.
This is a bill, filed by the plaintiff, asking for an injunction to, prevent the defendants from appropriating, or in any manner using, “the conception, idea, book, and record of obtaining, collecting, classifying, putting into convenient form, and making record thereof, for the uses of business men, the experiences of business men with men in dealing with them on credit, and, of leasing, selling or delivering such experiences and records to any person whatever,” which ideas, conceptions, etc., are fully set out in the bill. The bill avers, in substance, that the…
2Cases cited2 opinions
- Perris v. HexamerSupreme Court of the United States · 1879
- American Trotting Register Ass'n v. GocherU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern Ohio · 1895
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