General Electric Co. v. Wise
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Northern New York
In Equity. This is a motion in the above-entitled cause for a preliminary injunction restraining the defendant, his agents and servants, from manufacturing and selling certain electrical apparatus (sockets for incandescent lamps) alleged to be an infringement of the Tournier patent (letters patent No. 559,232), particularly claims 1, 2, 3, and 4 thereof,—a structure or invention alleged to be indispensable in the art of electric lighting.
1Opinion of the Court
RAY, District Judge.
The complainant’s claim is: That prior to April 28, 1896, Julius C. Tournier, a citizen of the state of New York, residing at Schenectady, was the original; first, and sole inventor of certain new and useful improvements in sockets for incandescent lamps, fully described in the letters patent, No. 559,232, and which had not been used by .others in this country before his invention or discovery thereof, and which had not been abandoned or patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country before his invention or discovery thereof, or more than…
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