Mygatt v. Schaffer
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. There are two suits between the same parties, brought for the infringement of certain patents and asking for an injunction, an accounting and damages.
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Appeals from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. There are two suits between the same parties, brought for the infringement of certain patents and asking for an injunction, an accounting and damages. Suit No. 1 involves an appeal from a decree of tlie District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York, made on December 31. 1913, adjudging that design patent of the United States No. 37,967, for a prismatic glass reflector, granted to Otis A. Mygatt on April 24, 1906, is invalid, and dismissing the bill of complaint. Suit No. 2…
1Opinion of the CourtRogers, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The Constitution gives Congress the power to promote the progress of science’and the useful arts by securing for limited times to’authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. In pursuance of that authority Congress in 1790 passed an act *829providing for the issuance of letters patent, and since that time has passed various other acts which have made provision for securing to inventors a right of property in their inventions. And Congress in its legislation respecting patents has provided for the issuance both of…
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