Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit May 8, 1900, No. 746 (Fry v. Rookwood Pottery)

BU RTON, Circuit Judge.

This is a bill to restrain infringement of patent No. 399,020, of March 5, 1889, granted to Laura A. Pry for an “improvement in the art of decorating pottery ware.” The answer denied novelty, and averred that the improvement had been described in printed publications prior to the alleged invention of the complainant, in a patent to B. Walkup, of May 6, 1881, a patent to A.