Legal Opinion
Lindsay v. Stein
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided February 24, 1882PublishedCited by 3 opinions
In Equity.
1Opinion of the Court
Blatchford, 0. J.
This suit is brought on letters patent No. 202,735, granted to the plaintiff April 23, 1878, for an “improvement in sleeve supporters.” Some time in 1878 the plaintiff invented a clasp. He applied, for a patent for it on the thirty-first of August, 1874, and obtained a patent for it, (No. 156,429,) November 3, 1874. The specification of that patent speaks of the clasp as one “for stocking supporters or various other articles of wearing apparel.” The clasp is composed of two jawed levers, pivoted together, and a spring arranged between them. The tail of each jaw-lever is made…
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