Phenix Gazette

Law of Patent.—Yesterday afternoon, an important case, which has occupied a week, was decided in the Circuit Court of the United States for this District,—John Ames, of Springfield, against Charles Howard and Wells Lathrop, of South Hadley. The action was brought for the infringement of a patent right, and damages were claimed for the unlawful use of two of his patent Cylinder machines for making paper, from October 26, 1832, to April 9, 1833. The defence rested on the alleged invalidity of the patent for various causes. A crowd of witnesses were examined during four days of last week, on behalf of either party. Counsel for the plaintiff, W. Bliss, of Springfield, and B. Rand of this city; and Geo Bliss, of Springfield, and R. Fletcher, of this city, for the defendants.—The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $412.50, which being tripled as the law requires is $1,237.50 damages. It is stated that the result of this trial is of very great importance to the manufacturers of paper in this country, there being at least twenty-five of these machines being in use by them, who will each be liable for damages, in an amount of nearly half a million of dollars.

The defendants, we understand, have decided on having it go to the Supreme Court of the U. States, and Daniel Webster has been retained by the plaintiff—Boston Centinel