General Electric Co. v. Nitro Tungsten Lamp Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit by the General Electric Company against the Nitro Tungsten Lamp Company for infringement of a patent. Decree for plaintiff, and defendant appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit by the General Electric Company against the Nitro Tungsten Lamp Company for infringement of a patent. Decree for plaintiff, and defendant appeals. As assignee of Langmuir’s patent, No. 1,180,159, dated April 18, 1916, plaintiff sues on claims 4, 5, 12, and 13. The patent is for an “incandescent electric lamp,” and according to the specification “relates to improvements” whereby is produced “a lamp capable of operating at extraordinarily high efficiency and giving a light of marked increase in…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] That Langmuir's lamp is in a sense a new thing is not denied; nor is it questioned that the thing has proved fit for use, especially for display and advertising purposes, and in that field achieved a measure of success'. But the path of invention in respect of electric lighting has now been trodden by the feet of so many men of talent, and research even into its bypaths been so thorough, that the first defense offered is that “the teachings of the prior art are such as to leave no room for the exercise of patentable invention on the part of Dr.…
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