Legal Opinion
American Graphophone Co. v. Leeds
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
Decided June 18, 1898PublishedCited by 10 opinions
This was a suit in equity by the American Graphophone Company against Loring L. Leeds, James H. White, and Leroy W. Baldwin for alleged infringement of a patent for an improvement in recording and reproducing speech and other sounds.
1Opinion of the Court
SHIPMAN, Circuit Judge.
This bill in equity relates to the alleged infringement of claims 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 37, and 38 of letters patent No. 341,214, dated May 4, 1886, issued to Chichester A.. Bell and Sumner Taintor for an improvement in recording and reproducing speech and other sounds; in other words, for the instrument now known as the "Graphophone.” These claims are as follows:
“(19) The combination, with a reproducing style, of a mounting therefor, which leaves said style free to move laterally, and thereby adjust itself automatically to a sound record, substantially as described.…
2Cases cited2 opinions
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- American Graphophone Co. v. AmetU.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois · 1896
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