Metallic Rubber Tire Co. v. Hartford Rubber Works Co.
District Court, D. Connecticut
In Equity. Suit by the Metallic Rubber Tire Company against the Hartford Rubber Works Company. On exceptions to master’s report on accounting.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, District Judge.
This case arises on exceptions to the report of the master, to whom the case was referred to- state an account of damages and profits arising from the infringement of the patent in suit. The invention of the patent relates “to means for preventing the yielding tires of bicycles and other wheeled vehicles from slipping on the roadway, as they are particularly apt to do when the roadway is smooth,” by embodying a wire in the tread of the tire. When the case came up for final hearing on pleadings and proofs, Judge Platt gave the patent a very narrow and restricted…
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