Edison Electric Light Co. v. E. G. Bernard Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
This was a suit in equity by the Edison Electric Light Company against the E. G. Bernard Company and others for alleged infringement of a patent for improvements in regulating the generative capacity of dynamo-electric machines. This is an equity action, founded upon letters patent, No. 264,608, granted to Thomas A. Edison, September 19, 1882, for an improvement in regulating the generative capacity of dynamo-electric machines.
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This was a suit in equity by the Edison Electric Light Company against the E. G. Bernard Company and others for alleged infringement of a patent for improvements in regulating the generative capacity of dynamo-electric machines. This is an equity action, founded upon letters patent, No. 264,608, granted to Thomas A. Edison, September 19, 1882, for an improvement in regulating the generative capacity of dynamo-electric machines. The specification says: “The object of this invention is to produce means by which the addition or removal of translating devices in the multiple-are circuits of a…
1Opinion of the Court
COXE, District Judge.
Although this record has been expanded beyond reason and precedent, it will be noted that the real issue is one of the simplest that can arise in a patent cause, viz.: whether the patent is invalidated by a single prior patent. The best evidence of what the patent covers is the patent itself. It states that it is for “a new and useful improvement in regulating the generative capacity of dynamo-electric machines.” The claims are for the dynamo in combination with translating devices in multiple-arc; but as this arrangement of translators has been well known since 1875,…
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- Westinghouse v. Edison Electric Light Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1894
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