Jacobs v. Baker
Supreme Court of the United States
Jacobs filed a bill in the Circuit Court for Southern Ohio against Baker, seeking relief for the infringement of four separate patents, which had been granted to him, Jacobs, for improvements in the construction of prisons. The bill set forth, the different patents. The first, dated January 7th, 1859, was for an improvement in the construction of prisons, which the complainant set forth in his specification with very numerous plates and designs.
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Jacobs filed a bill in the Circuit Court for Southern Ohio against Baker, seeking relief for the infringement of four separate patents, which had been granted to him, Jacobs, for improvements in the construction of prisons. The bill set forth, the different patents. The first, dated January 7th, 1859, was for an improvement in the construction of prisons, which the complainant set forth in his specification with very numerous plates and designs. The claim concluded thus: “What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by letters patent, is a secret passage, or guard-chamber, around the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice G-Bier
The patent act of 1836 * enumerated the discoveries or inventions for which patents shall be issued, and describes them, as “ any new and useful art, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter. ”-
¥e have been at some loss to discover under which category to class the four patents which are the subjects of this bill. The complainant alleges that he has invented a new and useful improvement in the construction of jails. Now a jail can hardly come under the denomination of “ a machine;”-nor, though made by hands, can it well be classed with “manufactures;” nor, although compounded of matter,…
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