American Graphophone Co. v. Talking-Machine Co.

SEAjMAN, District Judge.

This appeal is from an order denying the .complainant’s motion for a preliminary injunction in a suit for infringement of letters patent No. 341,214, issued May 4, 1886, to Brjll and Tain ter, now owned by the complainant, for “an improvement i/n recording and reproducing speech and other sounds,” being one /form of the instrument known as the “graphophone.” The patent specifies 47 claims, which purport to eover both the mechanism for making the “sound record” and. its product; and the alleged infringement consists in making duplicates of the product, but by a…