U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York February 3, 1892 (Griggs v. Perrin)

Coxe, District Judge.

The only question decided by the master and discussed at the argument is whether or not the copyright of a book describing a new art or system of stenography protects the system, when considered simply as a system, apart from the language by which the system is explained, so that another who illustrates the same system in a different hook, employing totally different