Maitland v. B. Goetz Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree of the circuit court for the Southern district of New York, in favor of the validity of claim 1 of reissued letters patent No. 11,478, dated March 12, 1895, and issued to Luther Stieringer, as assignor to George Maitland, for improvements in electrical fixtures.
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This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree of the circuit court for the Southern district of New York, in favor of the validity of claim 1 of reissued letters patent No. 11,478, dated March 12, 1895, and issued to Luther Stieringer, as assignor to George Maitland, for improvements in electrical fixtures. The original Stieringer patent, No. 259,235, was dated June 6, 1882. Claims 1, 7, 8, and 9 of this original patent were found by the circuit court for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania to be invalid (Maitland v. Gibson, 63 Fed. 126), and its decree was affirmed by the circuit court of…
1Opinion of the CourtShipman, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as aboye). Shortly before the year 1881, the means by which Edison’s incandescent electric lamp could be introduced-into houses and buildings which had theretofore been lighted by gas, and which were supplied with gas fixtures, began to be actively discussed by electricians and mechanics. The public was accustomed to gas fixtures. Much money had been expended in developing graceful and ornamental styles. The fixtures to be used exclusively for the new lamp were undeveloped, and those who proposed to try electricity as an illuminating agent desired to use the class of…
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