Legal Opinion
Sun Ray Gas Corp. v. Bellows-Claude Neon Co.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided May 12, 1931No. 5644PublishedCited by 31 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HICKENLOOPER, Circuit Judge.
Appellants urge the invalidity of claim 1 of patent No. 1,125,476, for a “system of illuminating by luminescent [neon] tubes” (issued January 19, 1915, upon application of Georges Claude), upon the ground of insufficient disclosure in the specification upon the allegedly essential and all-important subject of pressure; and because the claim, printed in the margin,1 has used what is said to be a meaningless ratio as descriptive of the size of the electrodes. It is also claimed that the appellants’ tubes do not infringe, in that electrodes of the cap type are used,…
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