United Electric Co. v. Creamery Package Mfg. Co.
District Court, E.D. Wisconsin
In Equity. Suit by the United Electric Company against the Creamery Package Manufacturing Company and others. On final hearing. Complainant, owner of Dillon reissue patent 13,352, dated January 9, 1912, for improvement in vacuum cleaners, charges defendant with infringement. The invention, as disclosed in the specification and claims, is as follows: Specification.
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In Equity. Suit by the United Electric Company against the Creamery Package Manufacturing Company and others. On final hearing. Complainant, owner of Dillon reissue patent 13,352, dated January 9, 1912, for improvement in vacuum cleaners, charges defendant with infringement. The invention, as disclosed in the specification and claims, is as follows: Specification. “The invention relates to vacuum cleaners including an electric motor, a suction fan, and a separating-ehamber communicating with a plurality of inlet-openings adapted to communicate with the tubular shanks of suction-nozzles. Such…
1Opinion of the CourtGeiger, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The parties are agreed that, whatever may appear in the art or industry of vacuum or pnéum'atic cleaning, no substantial successes had been achieved until the advent of the Kenney patent, 847,947, issued in 1907, upon application filed in 1901. This concurrence finds further support in the view taken, upon consideration, by the House of Lords, of Booth’s British patent, issued in 1901. The general survey of the art as found in the opinions filed in the latter case, is helpful in determining the scope of the present inquiry so far as it concerns the…
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- General Electric Co. v. HartmanCourt of Appeals for the First Circuit · 1911
- Westinghouse Air Brake Co. v. Christensen Engineering Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1903