American Graphophone Co. v. Amet
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
In Equity. Suit for injunction by the American Graphophone Company against Edward H. A met.
1Opinion of the Court
GROSSCUP, District Judge.
The hill is to restrain the infringement of letters patent No. 341,214, issued to Bell & Taintor, May 4, 1886, and also letters patent Eo. 341,288, issued to S. Taintor, of the samp date. The first patent is for an improvement in recording and reproducing speech and other sounds; and the second, for an improvement in apparatus for recording and reproducing sounds, or sonorous vibrations. The defendant contests the validity of complainant’s patents, and denies infringement.
Bell & Taintor lay no claim to having conceived the idea of a mechanism whereby speech or sound…
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