Legal Opinion
United States Electric Lighting Co. v. Consolidated Electric Light Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided February 9, 1888PublishedCited by 4 opinions
In Equity. Bill for injunction.
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
This bill is brought upon letters patent No. 806,980, dated October 21, 1884, and issued to the orator, as assignee of Edward Weston, for an improvement in the process of manufacturing carbon conductors for incandescent electric lamps. It alleges that Weston was the true, original, and first inventor of this process in the year 1877; that letters patent No. 211,262, dated January 7, 1879, were issued to *870William E. Sawyer and Albon Man for this process; that these letters patent were, by instruments in writing, recorded in the patent office, assigned by Sawyer and Man, on February 3,1879, to…
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