Electric Storage Battery Co. v. Buffalo Electric Carriage Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Western New York
In Equity. Suit for infringement of letters patent No. 337,299, granted to Charles F. Brush March 2, 1886, for a secondary battery. On motion for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
HAZEL, District Judge.
The patent in suit, No. 337,299, dated March 2, 1886, application filed June 13, 1881, is the Charles F. Brush generic patent for secondary or storage batteries, and is an improvement on the method applied by Gaston Plante prior to 1877. This patent, although many times vigorously assailed, has always been sustained. Judge Coxe, in the introduction to his opinion upon a motion for preliminary injunction in Battery Co. v. Belknap (C. C.) 112 Fed. 538, summarizes all the cases in which this patent has been at*315tacked. They show conclusively, upon examination, that the claims…
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