Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Black River Traction Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York.
1Opinion of the Court
WARRACE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree dismissing the bill of complaint in an action for the infringement of reissued letters patent No. 11,872 to Thomson-Houston Electric Company, assignee of Charles J. Van Depoele, granted November 13, 1900. It was decided by the court below that the reissue was void, among other reasons, because the invention described and claimed therein had been described and claimed by Van Depoele in letters patent No. 424,-695, granted to him April 1, 1890, and previously to the patent of which the patent in suit is the reissue. The original patent, No.…
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