Edison v. Allis Chalmers Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western New York
.In- Equity. Suit by .Thomas A. Edison against the Allis-Chalmers Company, Empire Limestone Company, and the Casparis Stone Com- <■ pany'.' On final hearing.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
This is a bill in equity based on two-letters patent granted on April 23, 1901, to Thomas A. Edison, for method of breaking rock and for apparatus for breaking rock, numbered respectively, 672,616 and 672,617. The method patent was issued on application dated July 6, 1897, and the apparatus patent on divisional application dated August 9, 1900. The defendants are charged in the bill with joint infringement of the patents in this district. The answers allege invalidity of the patents because of prior public-use and sale more than two years before they were granted…
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