Edison Electric Light Co. v. Peninsular Light, Power & Heat Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan. This is a suit to restrain infringement of two patents relating to systems of electrical distribution granted to Tilomas A. Edison. The complainants are two corporations, one of which is the owner of the patents, and the other a licensee under the first for the city of Grand Rapids, Mich.
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Western District of Michigan. This is a suit to restrain infringement of two patents relating to systems of electrical distribution granted to Tilomas A. Edison. The complainants are two corporations, one of which is the owner of the patents, and the other a licensee under the first for the city of Grand Rapids, Mich. The defendants are two corporations, — the Peninsular Light, Power & Heat Company and the Lowell Water & Light Company. The last named generates electrical current at its station near Lowell by water power, and transmits…
1Opinion of the CourtLurton, Circuit Judge
1. The decree dismissing the bill as against the Lowell Light & Power Company was clearly right. It sold the current which it generated to the Peninsular Company. That current was as well adapted for use in one mode of distribution as another, and was adapted equally as well for furnishing power as for illuminating purposes. *833Being suitable for a great variety or methods of use, it does not come within the rule applied when the article furnished is adapted only to the infringing use. Neither is there any evidence that it supplied current to the distributing company with any intent that it…
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