Municipal Signal Co. v. National Electrical Mfg. Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree of the circuit court, district of Connecticut, finding infringement by defendant of two patents owned by complainant. Both were issued, on the same day, March 22, 1887, to Bernice-J. Noyes, assignor to the Municipal Signal Company of New Hampshire, the predecessor of- complainant, which is a Maine corporation.
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Appeal from tlie Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut. This is an appeal from an interlocutory decree of the circuit court, district of Connecticut, finding infringement by defendant of two patents owned by complainant. Both were issued, on the same day, March 22, 1887, to Bernice-J. Noyes, assignor to the Municipal Signal Company of New Hampshire, the predecessor of- complainant, which is a Maine corporation. The patents are No. 359,687, with eleven claims, of which the first two only were held to be infringed, and No. 359,088, with five claims, all of which…
1Opinion of the Court
LACOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The opinions in the First circuit are full and careful discussions of the patents and the art as there disclosed. So far as this court is in accord with argument or conclusion, it will be sufficient to indicate that fact, without rehearing the same. Thus this opinion may be materially abbreviated, and its-discussions confined to matters not before the courts in the First circuit. A somewhat full quotation from No. ’87 will best describe the invention, which has for its object a municipal or police signal system:
“A series of signal boxes or substations are connected by…
2Cited by1 opinion
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