Lorimer v. Keith
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on appeals from decisions of tbe Commissioner of Patents in interference proceedings. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: These are interference cases involving claims to priority of an invention relating to automatic telephone exchange systems, particularly to such a system in which there is a plurality of “auxiliary switches” all having access to the same group of subscribers and means by which other switches, called “primary switches,” are…
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Hearing on appeals from decisions of tbe Commissioner of Patents in interference proceedings. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: These are interference cases involving claims to priority of an invention relating to automatic telephone exchange systems, particularly to such a system in which there is a plurality of “auxiliary switches” all having access to the same group of subscribers and means by which other switches, called “primary switches,” are enabled to automatically pick out and connect with one of the auxiliary switches, which happens, at the time, to be out of…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Shepard
The earlier Lundquist application of March 1, 1899, clearly disclosed an automatic telephone system embodying the invention of the issue of the three-party interference, and count two of the two-party interference. This application was allowed April 5, 1901, forfeited for failure to pay the final fee and abandoned; but in the meantime his present application had been filed. While the features of the broad invention are shown in both applications, there is a specific difference between the forms of construction set out and claimed in each.
Based upon these specific differences of construction,…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Godfrey v. EamesSupreme Court of the United States · 1864
- Victor Talking Mach. Co. v. American Graphophone Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1906
- Victor Talking Mach. Co. v. American Graphophone Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York · 1905