Weber Electric Co. v. Connecticut Electrical Mfg. Co.
District Court, D. Connecticut
In Equity. Suit for infringement of patents by the Weber Electric Company against the Connecticut Electrical Manufacturing Company. On motion for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
THOMAS, District Judge.
This is a motion for a preliminary injunction in a suit for infringement of two Weber patents, No. 743,206 and No. 916,812, for incandescent electric lamp sockets. Only claim 4 of the first patent and claim 1 of the second patent are in issue.
At oral argument on this motion the court suggested that its general policy was against granting a preliminary injunction in a patent case where the defendant is, as here, a responsible and substantial concern; but an examination of the cases bearing upon the rights of the plaintiff in the circumstances of this case, and the prior…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Mast, Foos & Co. v. Stover Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Weber Electric Co. v. National Gas & Electric Fixture Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1914
- Weber Electric Co. v. National Gas & Electric Fixture Co.District Court, S.D. New York · 1913
- Weber Electric Co. v. Union Electric Co.District Court, D. New Jersey · 1915
- Weber Electric Co. v. Cutler-Hammer Mfg. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1919
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