Tesla Electric Co. v. Scott
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
This was a suit in equity by the Tesla Electric Company against Scott & Janney and others for infringement of certain letters patent relating to electro-magnetic motors.
1Opinion of the Court
McPHERSON, District Judge.
The defendants are charged with infringing letters patent Nos. 511,915 and 555,190, granted to the plaintiff as assignee of Nikola Tesla. The patents relate to electromagnetic motors operated by alternating currents of electricity, and the points in controversy cannot be understood without a brief preliminary consideration of certain properties manifested by the electric fluid. I condense the following account from the brief of plaintiff’s counsel, understanding that no objection is made by the defendants to the accuracy of the theory now to be repeated:
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