General Electric Co. v. Cooper Hewitt Electric Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from1 the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Ohio; John H. Clarke, Judge. Suit in equity by the General Electric Company against the Cooper Hewitt Electric Company. Decree for defendant, and complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
DENISON, Circuit Judge.
The appellant, as owner of the Kuch patent., No. 883,725, issued April 7, 1908, f.or a method of operating vapor lamps, brought this action in the court below against the appellee, for infringement of claim 1. The bill was dismissed because this claim was held invalid.
We think the judgment below may rightly be sustained upon a comparatively simple ground, which makes unnecessary any extended consideration of vapor lamps or of the operative principles involved. The mercury arc lamp is the most familiar type of the class to which the patent refers, and its general theory…
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