Legal Opinion
Holmes Electric Protective Co. v. Metropolitan Burglar Alarm Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided December 31, 1887PublishedCited by 9 opinions
In Equity. Action for infringement of patent.
1Opinion of the CourtCoxe, J.
The defendant is charged with infringing letters patent No. 120,874, granted November 14, .1871, to Edwin Holmes and Henry C. Roome, for an improvement in electric linings for safes. The alleged invention consists in placing the electrical apparatus on the outside instead of on the inside of the safe. The claims are as follows:
“(1) A safe or vault provided with an electric outer lining surrounding or covering it wholly or in part, and insulated therefrom, and protected, substantially as herein shown and specified.
'*(2) The exterior inclosure, B, made of the parts 6 and e, substantially as…
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