Fry v. Rookwood Pottery

BU RTON, Circuit Judge.

This is a bill to restrain infringement of patent No. 399,020, of March 5, 1889, granted to Laura A. Pry for an “improvement in the art of decorating pottery ware.” The answer denied novelty, and averred that the improvement had been described in printed publications prior to the alleged invention of the complainant, in a patent to B. Walkup, of May 6, 1881, a patent to A. Peeler, of April 25, 1882, in the life of Josiah Wedgewood, in the “History of the Ceramic Art,” and in other publications; and that the process had been known and in public use prior to complainant’s…