Wooster v. Crane
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was a final hearing in equity, on a bill Lby Emma C. Wooster against Jason Crane and others] founded on letters patent, issued October 20, 1863, for a design for a reel to contain ruffles, ladies’ dress trimmings and other goods, and consisting of two parallel discs of pasteboard connected by four bits of wood, on which the ruffle was wound between two pasteboard sides.
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This was a final hearing in equity, on a bill Lby Emma C. Wooster against Jason Crane and others] founded on letters patent, issued October 20, 1863, for a design for a reel to contain ruffles, ladies’ dress trimmings and other goods, and consisting of two parallel discs of pasteboard connected by four bits of wood, on which the ruffle was wound between two pasteboard sides. The pasteboard was cut in the form of a rhombus with the angles rounded, and what the pat-entee claimed was “the design and configuration of the reel.”
1Opinion of the Court
BENEDICT, District Judge.
The statute relied on, as giving to the plaintiff the right sought to be enforced, is the eleventh section of the act of March 2, 1881 (12 Stat. 248), which provides “that any citizen or citizens, or alien or aliens, having resided one year in the United States, and taken the oath of his or their intention to become a citizen or citizens, who, by his, her, or their own industry, genius, efforts and expense, may have invented or produced any new and original design, or a manufacture, whether of metal or other material, * * * or any new and useful pattern or print or…
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