General Electric Co. v. Hoskins Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of. the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois; Arthur D. Sanborn, Judge. ■ _ .Suit in equity by the Hoskins Manufacturing Company against the General Electric Company. • Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. This patent was sustained and found to be .infringed by the District Court.
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Appeal from the District Court of. the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois; Arthur D. Sanborn, Judge. ■ _ .Suit in equity by the Hoskins Manufacturing Company against the General Electric Company. • Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. This patent was sustained and found to be .infringed by the District Court. It was granted to A. L. Marsh for an electric resistance element on' February 4, 1906, as patent No. 811,859. Claim 1 calls for an electric resistance element composed of an alloy consisting of one of the metals of the chromium group and…
1Opinion of the CourtKohlsaat, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above).
[1] At the threshold we are confronted with appellant’s attack upon the patent growing out of the proceedings in the Patent Office, which, it is contended, show that appellee abandoned the subject-matter covered by the patent, or at least so narrowed it that it may not now be construed to cover appellant’s resistance element. These matters are fully and satisfactorily covered by the. opinion of the trial court ([D. *467C.] 212 Fed. 422), -and we are content to accept the conclusions there arrived at, and to hold that the claims are good for whatever of invention…
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