Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Union Ry. Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York
This was a suit in equity by the Thomson-Houston Electric Company against the Union Railway Company for alleged infringement of letters patent No. 495,443, granted April 11, 1893, to the administrators of Charles J. Van Depoele, for an improvement in traveling contacts for electric railways. The cause was heard upon motion for a. preliminary injunction under claims 2 and 4 of the patent.
1Opinion of the Court
LAOOMBE, Circuit Judge.
The circumstance that these two claims were not expressly declared upon in the Winchester Ave. Ry. Co. Case, decided by Judge Townsend (71 Fed. 192), is not controlling. In Westinghouse Air-Brake Co. v. New York Air-Brake Co., 65 Fed. 99, a preliminary injunction was granted by tins court on patent No. 3(50,070, although it had not been previously adjudicated, on the ground that in the earlier litigation it had been ‘-discussed at great length, and its meritoriousness clearly recognized.'’ And that injunction was sustained in the court of ajipeals. 16 C. C. A. 371, 69…
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- Deering v. Winona Harvester WorksSupreme Court of the United States · 1894
- Taylor v. Sawyer Spindle Co.Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit · 1896
- Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Hoosick Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1897
- Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Winchester Ave. Ry. Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Connecticut · 1895
- New York Air-Brake Co. v. Westinghouse Air-Brake Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1895
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