General Electric Co. v. Morgan-Gardner Electric Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Appellant failed in its suit to enjoin alleged infringement of claims 1 and 2 of patent No. 587,441 and claims 3, 4, and 9 of patent No. 587,442, both issued on August 3, 1897, to Knight and Potter, one for a “regulating apparatus for electrically driven mechanism,” and the other for a “method of regulating electrically driven mechanism.” 159 Fed. 951. The claims…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois. Appellant failed in its suit to enjoin alleged infringement of claims 1 and 2 of patent No. 587,441 and claims 3, 4, and 9 of patent No. 587,442, both issued on August 3, 1897, to Knight and Potter, one for a “regulating apparatus for electrically driven mechanism,” and the other for a “method of regulating electrically driven mechanism.” 159 Fed. 951. The claims are as follows: “1. In an apparatus for regulating the power and speed of mechanism driven by two electric motors, the…
1Opinion of the CourtBaker, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). In General Electric Co. v. Garrett Coal Co., 146 Fed. 66, 76 C. C. A. 528, the claims here in suit were held valid and infringed by the device used by the Garrett Coal Company and manufactured by appellee. Some additional prior patents, without explanation or discussion by experts, have been put into the present record. Our examination of them leads us to conclude that the best possible exhibition of the prior art was made in the Garrett Coal Company record, which constitutes the substantial part of the record in this case. On the issues of patentable…
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