General Electric Co. v. Nitro-Tungsten Lamp Co.
District Court, S.D. New York
In Equity. Suit by the General Electric Company against the NitroTungsten Ramp Company for infringement of all 13 claims of letters patent No. 1,180,159, issued April 18, 1916, to plaintiff, on application filed on April 19, 1913, by Irving Rangmuir.
1Opinion of the Court
MAYER, District Judge.
Invention is the substantial question involved, for, if established, infringement of certain claims is unquestioned. The search for improvement in lighting means began at least as far back as about 1840, but the real art in incandescent lamps started with Edison in 1879, when he created the commercial incandescent lamp by producing the one-piece bulb, the carbon filament and the vacuum.
To those skilled in the art the details of Edison’s contribution need not be recited. It so happens that much of the outline of the progress of this art is to be found in reports of court…
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