Featherstone v. George R. Bidwell Cycle Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
In Equity. Bill by Alfred Featberstone against tbe George B. Bid-well Cycle Company for infringement of reissued letters patent No. 11,153, granted March 24, 1891, to John B. Dunlop, upon the original patent issued to him September 9, 1890.
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, District Judge.
This is a suit brought for the alleged infringement of reissued letters patent No. 11,153, for improvements in wheel tires for cycles, and in the means of securing them to wheel rims, with prayer for an injunction and an accounting. The patentee, Dunlop, originally obtained two patents in Great Britain, — the first in 1888, for a pneumatic tire; the second in 1889, for an improvement in said tire, and in the means of securing it to wheel rims. The English patent of 1889 claimed an inflated tube of India rubber, enveloped by a strengthening fold of canvas cemented to…
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