McComb, as assignee of George Brodie, March 25, 1873, for an "improvement in cotton bale ties," the original patent having been granted to Brodie as inventor March 22, 1859, and reissued to him April 27, 1869, and extended for seven years from March 22, 1873, and No. 19,490, granted to Frederic Cook, March 2, 1858, for an "improvement in metallic ties for cotton bales," and extended for seven years from Mareissued letters patent No. The suit was brought for the infringement of three several letters patent: No. This is an appeal by the plaintiffs in a suit in equity from a decree dismissing the bill of complaint. JUSTICE BLATCHFORD delivered the opinion of the Court. The facts are stated in the opinion of the Court. Quaere would A.'s sale of the buckle apart from the band be an infringement of the patents? He then cut them into proper lengths and sold them with the buckles, to be used as ties, nothing having been done to the buckles. who bought them and the buckles as scrap iron, rolled and straightened the pieces of the bands and riveted together their ends. After the bands had been severed at the cotton mill, A. The owner of patents for improvements in metallic cotton bale ties, each tie consisting of a buckle and a band, granted no license to manufacture the ties, but supplied the market with them, the words " Licensed to use once only" being stamped in the metal of the buckle. 89 APPEAL FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE DISTRICT OF RHODE ISLAND Syllabus
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