...the case of Wells v. Yates ct al. THE GORHAM MANUFACTURING COMPANY vs. GEORGE C. WHITE. IN EQUITY. The acts of Congress which authorize the grant of patents for designs were plainlv intended to give encouragement to the decorative arts. They contemplate not so much utilitv...

...United States, in Gorham Company vs. White, 14 Wall., 524, have said, in regard to design-patents, that "they contemplate not so much utility as appearance, and that not an abstract impression, but an aspect given to those objects mentioned in the arts." That was an action brought for the infringement...

...Manufacturing Co. v. White (14 Wall., 511,) decided under the act of 1861 , in the following words : The acts of Congress which authorize the grant of...aspect given to those objects mentioned in the acts. If, using language in a very broad, not to say fanciful, sense, we may properly predicate utility of...

...indispensable to understand what constitutes identity of design, and what amounts to infringement? The acts of Congress which authorize the grant of...designs were plainly intended to give encouragement to *he decorative arts. They contemplate not so much utility as appearance, and that, not tm abstract...

...Justice Strong, that the acts of Congress authorizing the granting of patents for designs contemplated " not so much utility as appearance, and that, not an...aspect given to those objects mentioned in the acts. . . . And the thing invented or produced, for which a patent is given, is that which gives a peculiar...

...Justice Strong, that the acts of Congress authorizing the granting of patents for designs contemplated u not so much utility as appearance, and that, not an...aspect given to those objects mentioned in the acts. . . . And the thing invented or produced, for which a patent is given, is that which gives a peculiar...

...Strong, that the acts of Congress authorizing the granting of patents for designs contemplated — not so much utility as appearance, and that, not an abstract impression, nr picture, but an aspect given to those objects mentioned in the acts. * * * Aud the thing invented...

...the use of any of such other equivalents.2 With regard to patents for designs, the patent acts are intended to give encouragement to the decorative arts. They contemplate not so much practical utility as appearance. It is the appearance itself which makes the article salable, and the...

...mechanical utility. The Supreme Court said in Gorham Company \. White. ('2 OG, 592; 14 Wall., oil:) The acts of Congress which authorize the grant of...They contemplate not so much utility as appearance. In exparte ParMnson(GD, 1871, 251) Commissioner Leggettsaid: The law has provided for granting patents...

...Justice Strong, that the acts of congress authorizing the granting of patents for designs contemplated "not so much utility as appearance, and that, not...aspect given to those objects mentioned in the acts. * * * And the thing invented or produced, for which a patent is given, is that which gives a peculiar...