Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. v. New York Air-Brake Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
These were suits by the Westinghouse Air-Brake Company against the New York Air-Brake Company and others, and by George Westinghouse, Jr., and the Westinghouse Air-Brake Company against the New York Air-Brake Company and others, for the infringement of certain patents for improvements in railroad brakes.
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These were suits by the Westinghouse Air-Brake Company against the New York Air-Brake Company and others, and by George Westinghouse, Jr., and the Westinghouse Air-Brake Company against the New York Air-Brake Company and others, for the infringement of certain patents for improvements in railroad brakes. The bills were dismissed as to some of the patents, and decrees granted as to certain specific claims in the rest of the patents. 59 Fed. 581. Complainants and defendants respectively appeal from these decrees.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.
The various appeals in these three cases are from decrees of the circuit court for the southern district of New York upon three bills in equity for the alleged infringement of letters patent. No. 4,977 was founded upon letters patent No. 376,837, dated January 24, 1888, and letters patent No. 172,064, dated February 11, 1876, each issued to George Westinghouse, Jr. The circuit court decreed that the defendants should be enjoined against their infringement of the first, second, and third claims of No. 376,837, and that the bill should be dismissed as to No. 172,064. No.…
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