Philadelphia Trust, Safe-Deposit & Insurance v. Edison Electric Light Co.
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Appeal from (lie Circuit Court of the United Whites for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This was a suit by the Edison Electric Light Company of New York and the Edison Electric Light Company of Pennsylvania against file Philadelphia Trust, Safe-Deposit & Insurance Company, trustee under the will of John Grump, owner of the Colonade Hotel, and George It. Crump and Henry J. Crump, to restrain the infringement of a. patent.
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Appeal from (lie Circuit Court of the United Whites for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. This was a suit by the Edison Electric Light Company of New York and the Edison Electric Light Company of Pennsylvania against file Philadelphia Trust, Safe-Deposit & Insurance Company, trustee under the will of John Grump, owner of the Colonade Hotel, and George It. Crump and Henry J. Crump, to restrain the infringement of a. patent. From an order granting a preliminary injunction (60 Eed. 297), defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
WALES, District Judge.
This is an appeal from the order of the circuit court of the United States for the Eastern district of Pennsylvania granting a preliminary injunction against the defendants, *552and enjoining them from using certain electric lamps, which are alleged to infringe the. second claim of letters patent No. 223,898, dated January 27, 1880, issued to Thomas A. Edison, and generally known as the “Edison Filament Patent.” The second claim reads as follows:
“The combination of carbon filaments with a receiver made entirely of glass, and conductors passing through the glass, from which…
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