Weston Electrical Instrument Co. v. Jewell

WHEELER, District Judge.

This suit is brought for an alleged infringement of patent No. 392,387, dated November 6, 1888, and granted to Edward Weston, for an electrical measuring apparatus. The defenses are anticipation, lack of patentable novelty, and non-infringement.

It seems to be a principle of electrical and magnetic philosophy that a direct current of electricity passing through a movable coil situated in a magnetic field will move the coil against steady less resistance in the field in proportion in distance to the strength of the current. The measurements will remain the same while the…