Electro-Dynamic Co. v. United States Light & Heat Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. Suit by the Electro-Dynamic Company against the United States Eight & Heat Corporation. From a decree for defendant (Consolidated Ry. Electric Fighting & Equipment Co. v. United States Eight & Heat Corporation, 246 Fed. 127), plaintiff appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. Suit by the Electro-Dynamic Company against the United States Eight & Heat Corporation. From a decree for defendant (Consolidated Ry. Electric Fighting & Equipment Co. v. United States Eight & Heat Corporation, 246 Fed. 127), plaintiff appeals. Suit is on claims 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8 of patent to Kennedy (owned by plaintiff), No. 1/119,482. issued March 5, 1912, upon an application filed March 17, 1908. The patent is for “charging storage batteries.” It “relates primarily to an improved method rwhereby] *…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] We pass without discussion or decision the question whether the method claims of this patent are anything more than descriptions of a function of the mechanical device disclosed. In a steadily growing art, the laudatory epithets bes Lowed in the cases cited above upon the device of using the back voltage of the battery to stop overcharging seem now rather out of place. Systems of lighting substantially along Cteveling’s suggestions obtained extended use, and this record displays unanimity among practical men, that for reasons arising especially from the…
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