Benjamin Electric Mfg. Co. v. Dale Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This cause comes here upon appeal from a decree of the Circuit Court, Southern District of New York, dismissing a bill in equity for injunction and accounting upon the ground that the articles manufactured and sold by defendant did not infringe the patents sued upon. 'The opinion of the Circuit Court is reported in 141 Ted. 989.
1Per curiam
The patents sued upon were both issued to Reuben B. Benjamin on the same day (March 3, 1903) upon an application filed May 30, 1898, and renewed August 10, 1901. Complainants here rely on three claims of patent No. 731,774, viz.:
“5. An electric-lamp cluster, comprising a plurality of metal receivers for the lamps, a metallic truncated portion carrying the receivers and attached to the base, an electric connection with the receivers, an additional contact for each receiver and an electric connection with said contacts, as set forth.”
“7. In a plural lamp-socket the combination with an…
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