Automotive Equipment Co. v. Connecticut Telephone & Electric Co.

BUFFINGTON, Circuit Judge.

As this case comes for review before this court, the issues originally involved have lessened to a narrow compass, namely, whether the defendants by repair or by reconstruction infringe patent No. 1,204,104, granted November 7, 1916, to Wilcox and Cavanaugh, for ignition mechanism for internal combustion engines. The court below held the defendants infringed, whereupon the latter took this appeal.

The validity of the patent was sustained by the court below, and also in Conn. Tel. & Elec. Co. v. Brown & Caine, 10 F.(2d) 823, a ease in the Northern district of Illinois,…