Legal Opinion
General Electric Co. v. Wabash Appliance Corp.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided August 16, 1937No. 450PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SWAN, Circuit Judge.
This is a patent infringement suit based on the Pacz patent, No. 1,410,499, owned by General Electric Company. The patent issued March 21, 1922, on an application filed February 20, 1917. It relates to tungsten filaments for incandescent lamps, and contains both process and product claims; but only product claims are involved in the present litigation. The defendants are charged with selling lamps having filament (purchased by them for assemblage into lamps) which infringes claims 25, 26, and 27 of the patent. The two individual defendants are the sole officers and…
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