Greenewalt v. Stanley Co. of America

THOMPSON, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal by the appellant, the plaintiff below, from a decree dismissing a bill charging infringement of appellant’s reissue patent No. 16,825 for' a method of and means for associating light and music. The original issue was on January 15, 1924, upon an application filed August 30, 1918. The patent was reissued upon application on December 20, 1927. The issues upon hearing involved infringement of method claims 8 to 17 of the reissued patent. The defenses set up were invalidity and noninfringement. The court held that the claims in suit were invalid, because…