Automatic Switch Co. v. Monitor Mfg. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Maryland
In Equity. Suit by the Automatic Switch Company against the Monitor Manufacturing Company and George H. Whittingham.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSE, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity for an alleged infringement of certain claims of patents 716,504 and 757,853, both originally issued to George H. Whittingham, one of the defendants.
In 1888 Whittingham, then about 20 or 21 years of age, applied for a patent for an automatic switch for electric motors. He organized the Automatic Switch Company of Baltimore City and sub*984scribed for all its-stock. He paid for it by (1) assigning the patent to be issued, and by agreeing to assign (2) all foreign patents he might obtain' for the same invention, and (3) any improvements upon said switch…
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