R. Thomas & Sons Co. v. Electric Porcelain & Mfg. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
In Equity. Suit for infringement of patent. On final hearing. The following cuts and extracts from the specification illustrate the Boch insulator, and the process of its manufacture: “In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a sectional view illustrating one step in the manufacture of my improved insulator. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a finished insulator.
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In Equity. Suit for infringement of patent. On final hearing. The following cuts and extracts from the specification illustrate the Boch insulator, and the process of its manufacture: “In the accompanying drawings, Fig. 1 is a sectional view illustrating one step in the manufacture of my improved insulator. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of a finished insulator. In the drawings I have shown a triple petticoat type of insulator, but my invention may be employed in the manufacture of double petticoat insulators or other styles. The insulator is built up of two or more separately molded parts of…
1Opinion of the Court
ARCHBALD, District Judge.1
The defendants do not dispute that there lias been an infringement, if the patent in suit is a valid one; but they deny that it is, on the ground that it has no novelty, and that the process involved in it is not patentable, and, if these be found against them, they further assert that Locke was the real inventor, and not Boch, under whom the plaintiff claims. The patent is for a high-tension porcelain electric insulator, manufactured according to a specified method, as set forth in letters patent issued to John W. Boch, March, 1898, on an application filed Octo*926ber…
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