Marconi Wireless Telegraph Co. of America v. National Electric Signaling Co.
District Court, E.D. New York
In Equity. Two suits by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America against the National Electric Signaling Company.
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In Equity. Two suits by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America against the National Electric Signaling Company. The first suit involves reissued letters patent No. 11,913 (original No. 586,-193, dated July 13, 1897), for improvements in transmitting electrical impulses and signals and in apparatus therefor, issued to Guglielmo Marconi on June 4, 1901, and letters patent No. 609,154, for improvements in electrical telegraphy, issued to Oliver Joseph Lodge on August 16, 1898, now owned by complainant. The second suit involves letters patent No. 763,772, for improvements in apparatus…
1Opinion of the Court
VEEDER, District Judge.
The patents in issue relate to the communication of intelligible signals by -means of the radiation and detection of waves in the ether of space. In the popular imagination radio-telegraphy is coextensive with wireless telegraphy, but it is in fact only the culmination of successive efforts, beginning apparently in ancient Egypt, to transmit intelligence without the aid of any formal connecting medium. The earlier visual and auditory methods— the beacon fire, the semaphore, the heliograph, the cannonade—were subject to such obvious limitations that they have given way…
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