Legal Opinion
Bryant Electric Co. v. Industrial Electronics Corp.
District Court, D. New Jersey
Decided March 21, 1951No. Civ. A. No. 4142Published
1Opinion of the Court
FAKE, Judge.
Plaintiff is the owner of two patents which were applied for simultaneously on June 24, 1942. One, the Hodgkins Patent #2,400,353, and the other the Smith-Steeg-stra Patent #2,355,476. It is conceded that the invention claimed in the Hodgkins patent was first in point of time, although the patent was granted later than the Smith-Steegstra patent.
Defendant pleads the invalidity of each of these patents on the ground that the elements involved in the combination claims sued upon were old in the art when the patents issued, and the accumulation of elements does not rise to the…
2Cases cited3 opinions
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- Lincoln Engineering Co. v. Stewart-Warner Corp.Supreme Court of the United States · 1938
- Bilofsky v. Westinghouse Electric Supply Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1947