Weber Electric Co. v. E. H. Freeman Electric Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE CIRCUIT COURT OF APPEALS FOR' THE THIRD CIRCUIT. ’ The case is stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Clarke
This is a suit for infringement of Letters Patent of the United States, No. 743,206, granted to August Weber, Sr., on November 3, 1903. The District Court held claims 1 and 4 valid and infringed, but the Circuit Court of Appeals, while affirming the validity of the claims, reversed the holding that they were infringed. A supposed conflict of this decision as to infringement'with one by the Circuit Court of Appeals of;the Second Circuit, with' respect to the same patent, serves to bring the case here for review on writ of certiorari.
The patent is a simple and, as we shall see, a narrow one. As…
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