Case ID: f-cas_11/html/0925-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "[CRANCH, Chief Judge.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Case No. 6,277.
    
    HAZARD v. GREEN.
    Circuit Court, District of Columbia.
    1847.
    Patents — Knows Thing — New Pcufose.
    The application of a known thing to a new purpose, as the use of rivets to fasten parts of a shoe instead of sewing, though such particular parts of the shoe had never before been so fastened, is not the subject of a patent.
   [CRANCH, Chief Judge.

Cited in Law, Dig. 488, to the point as stated above. Nowhere more fully reported; opinion not now accessible.]