Columbia Motor Car Co. v. C. A. Duerr & Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suits in equity by the Columbia Motor Car Company and George B, Selden against C. A. Duerr & Co. and the Ford Motor Company, against the O. J. Gude Company, against John Wanamaker and others, against Société Anonyme Des Anciens Établissements, Panhard & Levassor, and Andre Mossenat, and against Henry & A. C. Neu-bauer. Decrees for complainants, and defendants appeal..
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Appeals from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suits in equity by the Columbia Motor Car Company and George B, Selden against C. A. Duerr & Co. and the Ford Motor Company, against the O. J. Gude Company, against John Wanamaker and others, against Société Anonyme Des Anciens Établissements, Panhard & Levassor, and Andre Mossenat, and against Henry & A. C. Neu-bauer. Decrees for complainants, and defendants appeal.. The decrees of the Circuit Court sustained the validity, and found infringement of letters patent No. 549,160 granted November 5, 1895,…
1Opinion of the Court
NOYES, Circuit Judge.
Although the title of the alleged invention as stated in the preamble of the patent is an “improved road engine,” it is claimed to embrace the essential elements of the modern automobile and has been sustained as being “so fundamental and far reaching as to cover every modern car driven in any way by petroleum vapor and as yet commercially successful.”
The subject is most important; the interests involved, of great magnitude; the record, phenomenally long; and the questions presented, complex. In examining these questions we have been greatly aided by the work of the judge…
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