Case Name: HAZARD v. GREEN
Court: United States Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1847
Citations: 11 F. Cas. 925
Docket Number: 
Parties: HAZARD v. GREEN.
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Cases
Volume: 11
Pages: 925–925

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
[CRANCH, Chief Judge.
Cited in Law, Dig. 488, to the point as stated above. Nowhere more fully reported; opinion not now accessible.]