General Electric Co. v. Alexander
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from tbe District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity for infringement of a patent by the General Electric Company against E. Alexander and another. Decree for plaintiff (277 Fed. 290), and defendants appeal.
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Appeal from tbe District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. Suit in equity for infringement of a patent by the General Electric Company against E. Alexander and another. Decree for plaintiff (277 Fed. 290), and defendants appeal. Action is upon the Just and Hanaman patent, No. 1,0.18,502, and the Langmuir patent, No. 1,180,159. Both patents have been sustained in this circuit; the former in General Electric Co. v. Laco-Phillips Co., 233 Fed. 96, 147 C. C. A. 166, and the latter in General Electric Co. v. Nitre-Tungsten Lamp Co. (C. C. A.) 266 Fed. 994, in which…
1Opinion of the Court
HOUGH, Circuit Judge.
The subject-matter of this litigation is the commercial article known as the tungsten-nitrogen lamp, in making which both the patents in suit are used, as is also the Coolidge patent 1,082,933, lately considered at length and broadly upheld in General Electric Co. v. Independent, etc., Co. (D. C.) 267 Fed. 824. The exhaustive opinion of Mayer, J., resulting in the decree appealed from, is reported in General Electric Co. v. Alexander (D. C.) 277 Fed. 290.
Reported decisions have, we think, rendered unnecessary further discussion of what may be called the history or…
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