Legal Opinion
General Talking Pictures Corp. v. Western Electric Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 16, 1938No. 357PublishedCited by 139 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Butler
Three suits were brought by respondents against petitioner in the district court for the southern district of New York to restrain infringements, based on. different patents for inventions in vacuum tube amplifiers which have been used in wire and radio telephony, talking motion pictures, and other fields. In all there were in suit seven patents. The cases were tried together and are treated as one. The lower courts held one of the patents invalid, and that ruling is not challenged here. They con*177curred in holding six of the patents valid and infringed by petitioner. 16 F. Supp. 293; 91 F.…
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