Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co. v. Gould Coupler Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. Suit in equity by the Safety Car Heating & Righting Company against the Gould Coupler Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. Appeal from decree in equity finding infringement by defendant-appellant of claims 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of patent No. 1,070,080', granted August 12, 1913, to Harrison G. Thompson, for a “car-lighting system.”
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Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Western District of New York. Suit in equity by the Safety Car Heating & Righting Company against the Gould Coupler Company. Decree for complainant, and defendant appeals. Appeal from decree in equity finding infringement by defendant-appellant of claims 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13 of patent No. 1,070,080', granted August 12, 1913, to Harrison G. Thompson, for a “car-lighting system.” The claims in suit are as follows: “4. In car-lighting apparatus, in combination, an electric generator, a storage battery connected to be charged…
1Opinion of the CourtHough, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). Electric-car-lighting systems, depending ultimately upon axle driven generators, did not originate with this patentee; nor regarded as new articles of manufacture did any component part of the system disclosed by him. This is so fulíy admitted by all parties that no further comment is necessary. Every claim in suit is for a combination, or co-ordinated arrangement, of well-known electrical tools or appliances, to the end that such arrangement may produce a result desirable, useful and novel; and of course what is patented is not the result, but the embodied…
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