General Electric Co. v. Allis-Chalmers Co.
District Court, D. New Jersey
In Equity. Suit by the General Electric Company against the Allis-Chalmers Company for infringement of letters patent No. 559,913, for an alternating current system of electrical distribution granted to Charles P. Steinmetz May, 12, 1896. On filial hearing. Decree for defendant.
1Opinion of the Court
REEESTAB, District Judge.
The bill is in the usual form for injunction and accounting. It charges the defendant with contributory infringement of the patent in suit by reason of its manufacture and sale to the United States government of apparatus embodying the improvement of said patent, which were installed at Minodoka, Idaho, in what is known as the “Minodoka Project of the United States Reclamation Service.”
The defenses are, first, invalidity by reason of lack of novelty; second, nouinfringemeut.
In the specifications Steinmetz describes the object of his inven- . tion as follows:
“My…
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- Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. v. Toledo, P. C. & L. Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit · 1909
- Baltimore & O. R. Co. v. KitchinCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1905
- Greene v. BuckleyCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1904
- Harder v. United States Piling Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1908
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