Weston Electrical Instrument Co. v. American Instrument Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Pennsylvania
In Equity. Suit for infringement of letters patent No. 906,498, for shunts or electrical resistances, granted to Edward Weston December •8, 1908. Motion for preliminary injunction. Motion granted.
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In Equity. Suit for infringement of letters patent No. 906,498, for shunts or electrical resistances, granted to Edward Weston December •8, 1908. Motion for preliminary injunction. Motion granted. The bill alleges that the individual defendants, Benecke, Fischer, and Biddle, who were former employes of the complainant, had conspired to utilize the secret and confidential knowledge of the complainant’s secret processes, devices, inventions, and trade secrets gained while in complainant’s employ for their individual gain and profit by making, using, and selling devices made by the complainant’s…
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge1
(orally). I suggested when I agreed to hear this motion that I should have to dispose of it upon the argument without taking the papers; and while I have only heard one party, and it is always unsatisfactory to decide a case without hearing from both, the case has been so fully and clearly presented that I will proceed, notwithstanding the lack of this, to the order which I propose to make.
*661The case as it is disclosed appeals strongly to a court of conscience. There has been a complete and unblushing appropriation of the invention—a clear “steal” in the words of the…
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