Legal Opinion
Western Electric Co. v. Western Tel. Const. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
Decided April 12, 1897PublishedCited by 2 opinions
Suit by the Western Electric Company against the Western Telephone Construction Company and others to restrain the alleged infringement of a patent.
1Opinion of the Court
GROSSCUP, District Judge.
The bill is to restrain infringement of letters patent No. 235,837, dated .May 27, 3879, issued to Hilburn L. Boosevelt. The defendants deny infringement, and also challenge the validity of the patent.
The patent is for an improvement in telephone switches, and its purpose is compactly stated in the following, from the specifications :
"It is a matter of considerable importance in connection with several telegraphic transmitting instruments, more especially telephones, that the operation of the transmitting instrument should automatically signal to the receiving…
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