Legal Opinion
United Wireless Telegraph Co. v. National Electric Signaling Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided June 18, 1912No. 953PublishedCited by 5 opinions
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Maine. ' Suit in equity by the National Electric Signaling Company against the United Wireless Telegraph Company, Selden Bacon, receiver, and others. Decree for complainant, and defendants appeal. Reversed.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, District Judge.
This is an appeal from the decree of the Circuit Court in a suit for infringement of letters patent 706,736 to Reginald A. Fessenden for apparatus for wireless telegraphy.
The appellant was found to infringe claims 6, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, and 35.
The nature of the Fessenden invention is thus set forth in the specification:
“The invention described herein relates to certain improvements in apparatus for the electrical transmission of signals- from one station to another without the use of conductors connecting such stations, such apparatus…
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