Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Sterling-Meaker Co.

LANNING, Circuit Judge.

One of the questions presented in this cause is whether claims 1, 2, 3, 8, 9, 11, 12, and 13 of patent No. 495,-383 are valid. Claims 11, 12, and 13 were held invalid in 1895 by the Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut, and in 1898 by the Circuit Court for the Southern District of New York, on the ground that no patentable invention was disclosed by them. See Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Winchester Avenue Railway Co., 71 Fed. 192, and Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Union Railway Co., 87 Fed. 879. Notwithstanding these two cases, were in the same circuit,…