Legal Opinion
Trane Co. v. Nash Engineering Co.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided March 26, 1928No. 2181PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ANDERSON, Circuit Judge.
In this patent infringement suit, the District Court (Morton, J.) held claims 2 and 11 of the Jennings reissue patent (No. 15,637, granted June 26, 1923) and claim 13 of the second Nash patent (No. 1,091,529, granted March 31, 1914) valid and infringed. The main issue is the validity of claim 2 of the Jennings patent, covering a combination of old elements for a wet vacuum pumping apparatus and reading:
“The combination, with the separating chamber of a vacuum steam-heating system, of a rotary gas pump employing water for its pumping action and having a rotor provided…
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- McClain v. OrtmayerSupreme Court of the United States · 1891
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3Cited by19 opinions
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