Westinghouse v. Edison Electric Light Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of .New Jersey. This was a bill in equity brought by the Edison Electric Light Company against Westinghouse, Church, Kerr & Co. “to restrain the infringement of the Edison patent for an electric distribution and translation system.” The circuit court sustained the patent and rendered a decree for complainant (55 Fed. 490), and defendants appealed.
1Opinion of the Court
ACHES OK, Circuit Judge.
This, suit was for the alleged infringement by tlie defendant of letters patent of the United States to Thomas A. Edison, Ko. 254,042, dated September 19,188.2, granted upon an application tiled August 9, 1880, for an “electric distribution and translation system.” After stating that the “invention relates to a method of equalizing the tension or pressure of the current through an entire system of electric lighting, or other translation of electric force, preventing what is ordinarily known as a ‘drop’ in those portions of the system the more remote from the central…
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