Quinn v. J. H. Faw, Inc.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Equity. Suit by Nelson J. Quinn against J. H. Faw, Incorporated. On final hearing. Decree for defendant. This is the usual suit in equity to enjoin infringement of the first four claims of a patent to H. A. Myers, No. 1,099,715. The invention relates to directing rays of light, projected forward by a reflector, particularly in connection with motor vehicles; the purpose being to increase the intensity and decrease any objectionable light dispersion.
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In Equity. Suit by Nelson J. Quinn against J. H. Faw, Incorporated. On final hearing. Decree for defendant. This is the usual suit in equity to enjoin infringement of the first four claims of a patent to H. A. Myers, No. 1,099,715. The invention relates to directing rays of light, projected forward by a reflector, particularly in connection with motor vehicles; the purpose being to increase the intensity and decrease any objectionable light dispersion. The apparatus described in the patent consists of silvering one hemisphere of the ordinary electric light bulb fixed in the approximate focal…
1Opinion of the CourtLearned Hand, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Whether it would have been invention to combine the bulb reflector of Sachs, 1,069,035, or Miller, 486,729, with a large reflector, is an academic question, in view of the file wrapper, as I shall show; but it is important to observe that Miller actually disclosed the whole combination as used by the defendant in lines 54-56 o-f his patent, which reads as follows:
“By this moans I can use any style of globe reflector upon the fixture with my improved shade, without one interfering with the other.”
*168Miller’s shade was especially arranged to be shifted about by…
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