Keeler v. Standard Folding Bed Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. The Standard Folding Bed Company, a corporation of the State of New York, filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts a bill of complaint against Keeler & Brother, partners doing business in the city of Boston.
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APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS. The Standard Folding Bed Company, a corporation of the State of New York, filed in the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts a bill of complaint against Keeler & Brother, partners doing business in the city of Boston. By an agreed state of facts it appears that the complainants are assignees, for the State of Massachusetts, of certain letters patent granted to one Lyman Welch, for an improvement in wardrobe bedsteadsthat the Welch Folding Bed Company own the patent rights for…
1Opinion of the Court
M-r. Justice Shirks,
after stating the case, delivered the opinion of the court.
It is provided in section 4884 of the Kevised Statutes that “ every patent shall contain ... a grant to the patentee, his heirs, or assigns, for the term of seventeen years, of the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the invention or discovery throughout the United States and Territories thereof; ” and in section 4898 that “ every patent or any interest therein shall be assignable in law by an instrument in writing, and the patentee or his assigns or legal representatives may in like manner grant and convey an…
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