Legal Opinion
Safety Car Heating & Lighting Co. v. General Electric Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided May 13, 1946No. 224PublishedCited by 57 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
L. HAND, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff appeals from a judgment, dismissing its complaint which alleged that the defendant infringed two patents: No. 1,708,625 and No. 1,708,626, both issued to Alan Varley Livingston on April 9, 1929. The claims in suit upon the first patent are sixteen, twenty-one and twenty-three; and on the second, nine, eleven, twelve, eighteen and nineteen. The judge held all these invalid upon the prior art, and, as we agree, we shall not consider the question of infringement. Both patents are for improvements in household refrigerators, which operate upon the principle…
2Cases cited10 opinions
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- Ruben Condenser Co. v. Copeland Refrigeration Corp.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1936
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