Case Name: Lehnbenter v. Holthaus
Court: Supreme Court of the United States
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1882-03-06
Citations: 12 F. 221
Docket Number: 
Parties: Lehnbenter v. Holthaus,
Judges: 
Reporter: Federal Reporter
Volume: 12
Pages: 221–221

Head Matter:
Patents.
Lehnbenter v. Holthaus,
21 O. G. 1783.
Appeal from the circuit court of tho United States for the eastern district of Missouri. The case was determined in the supreme court of the United States on
March 6, 1882,

Opinion:
Mr. Justice Woods
delivering the opinion, reversing the decree of the circuit court which dismissed the hill, and remanding the cause for further proceedings in conformity with the opinion of the supreme court.
In an action for infringement of a design patent, where comparison of the drawing appended to the patent with the cut of the circular, which it is admitted represents articles manufactured and sold by defendants, makes it clear that the latter is a servile copy of tho former, excepting a slight inclination backward, hardly perceptible, of the glass constituting the front of the elevated portions of the show-case, the subject of the design, it is an infringement of the patented design. The patent is prima faote ovidenee of both novelty and utility, and the fact that it has been infringed by the defendants is sufficient to establish its utility, at least, as to them. Citing Whitney v. Mowry, 4 Fish. 207