Western Electric Co. v. Standard Electric Co.

SHOWALTER, Circuit Judge.

This is a bill in equity for the alleged infringement of letters patent of the United States No. 496,-449, issued May 2, 1898, on the application of Charles E. Scribner and Ernest P. Warner, to the complainant corporation as assignee. The applicants say in the specification that they “have invented a certain new and useful improvement in- perforated pole pieces for dynamo-electric machines.” The proposed monopoly is set forth in two claims. The action here-is grounded on the second of these claims, which is in words following:

“A dynamo-electric machine having…