Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1883 — An Interesting Patent Suit. [ARTICLE]

An Interesting Patent Suit.

Nelson Lyon, of Albany, N. Y., has recovered judgment of $8,477.10, against G. T. Fisher & Co., in the U. S. Circuit court, at Detroit, Mich., for an infringement of Lyon’s Patent. Metallic Heel Stiffener. This contrivanuv Oill 1 Ol TITU TUOSb USUrITi or lilVUvrll Id ventions, and has achieved.a remarkable sale —over $750,000 worth, the testimony showed, having been sold since the patent was granted, being a grand total of 3,888,000 pairs. The invention consists of a neat metal plate fastening to the outside of a boot or shoe heel, arranged to prevent tbecounters from breaking over and. the heel from wearing down unevenly. Xbe Attorney General of the United States declared the Lyon patent invalid on account of an informality In the application. This was afterward corrected by the Commissioner of Patmts in accordance with a special act of Congress authorizing it. Action was commejiced m May, 1880, a perpetual injunction was obtained in December, and the case was referred to a-master, who reported the damages as $3,831, but on motion the court doubled the same, and directed judg; inent to be entered arainst. defendants for such double dtiffiages. with interest and costs.