Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Sterling-Meaker Co.
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey
In Equity. Suit for infringement of reissued letters patent No. 11,872 (original No. 495,443) for a traveling, contact for electric railways, issued to assignee of Charles J. Van Depoele November 13, 1900. On motion for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
LANNING, District Judge.
The application is for a preliminary injunction to restrain the defendant from infringing reissued patent No. 11,872, granted to the complainant on November 13, 1900. The original of the reissued patent, being patent No. 495,443, granted April 11, 1893, was held, after protracted litigation in various courts, by the Circuit Court of Appeals of the Second Circuit, in Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Hoosick Ry. Co., 82 Fed. 461, 27 C. C. A. 419, to be invalid as to its claims 6, 7, 8, 12, and .16, and by the same court, in Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Union Ry. Co.,…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Mast, Foos & Co. v. Stover Manufacturing Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1900
- Electric Manuf'g Co. v. Edison Electric Light Co.Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit · 1894
- Edison Electric Light Co. v. Beacon Vacuum Pump & Electrical Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Massachusetts · 1893
- Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Black River Traction Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1905
- Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Hoosick Ry. Co.Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1897
4 more not listed; retrieve them via the Exa API.
3Cited by1 opinion
- Thomson-Houston Electric Co. v. Sterling-Meaker Co.U.S. Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey · 1907