| Litigants: | Perris v. Hexamer |
| Arguedatea: | December 17 |
| Arguedateb: | 18 |
| Argueyear: | 1878 |
| Decidedate: | February 3 |
| Decideyear: | 1879 |
| Fullname: | Perris v. Hexamer |
| Usvol: | 99 |
| Uspage: | 674 |
| Parallelcitations: | 25 L. Ed. 308 |
| Holding: | A map-maker has no more an exclusive right to use the form of the characters they employ to express their ideas on a map than they have to use the typeface they use for text. |
| Majority: | Waite |
Perris v. Hexamer, 99 U.S. 674 (1879), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held a map-maker has no more an exclusive right to use the form of the characters they employ to express their ideas on a map than they have to use the typeface they use for text. Suitably, one could not use copyright to restrict the use of map symbols.[1] [2] [3]