Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. v. Sutter
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Pennsylvania; Charles P. Orr, Judge. Suit in equity by the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company against Frederick C. Sutter and others for infringement of letters patent No. 469,809, for a system of electrical distribution granted to William Stanley, Jr., March 1, 1892. Decree for defendants, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.
This case, while it involves a large record and á review of alleged conflicting decisions in the First and Second Circuits, comes down finally to a narrow question of fact in the end. The opinion of the court below (C. C.) 194 Fed. 888, is so full that we confine ourselves to briefly stating our conclusions. The problem to which both complainant’s and defendants’ devices are addressed was to provide self-regulating means whereby a variable number of electric lights located on a secondary wire would not have their brilliancy varied by reason of variation in number. In…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. v. SutterU.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western Pennsylvania · 1912