Westinghouse Electric Mfg. Co. v. Montgomery Electric Light & Power Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. This cause comes here on defendant’s appeal from an interlocutory decree of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York on final hearing, sustaining the validity, and finding infringement by defendant, of the first and third claims of complainant’s patent, No. 469,809, granted to it as assignee of William Stanley, Jr., on March 1, 1892. The court below…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York. This cause comes here on defendant’s appeal from an interlocutory decree of the United States Circuit Court for the Northern District of New York on final hearing, sustaining the validity, and finding infringement by defendant, of the first and third claims of complainant’s patent, No. 469,809, granted to it as assignee of William Stanley, Jr., on March 1, 1892. The court below originally granted an, order for a preliminary injunction (131 Eed. 86) which was reversed by this court (139 Eed. 868, 71 C. C.…
1Opinion of the Court
TOWNSEND, Circuit Judge.
The following statement may conduce to a clearer understanding of the Stanley patent and the questions herein involved:
The invention relates to a system of electrical distribution and regulation especially adapted to incandescent light plants. The problem which confronted the inventor, Stanley, was presented by defects in existing systems which resulted in variation in the luminosity of individual lamps upon variations of pressure due to variations in the number of lights in use. Stanley discovered that the cause of this variation was a lack of harmonious action…
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