American Bell Tel. Co. v. Cushman
U.S. Circuit Court for the Northern District of Illnois
In Equity. Suits for the infringement of letters patent No. 186,787, issued January 30, 1877, to Alexander Graham Bell, for a telephone. Motion for preliminary injunction.
1Opinion of the Court
JENKINS, Circuit Judge.
The patent involved in these suits has passed under the review of the supreme court of the United States, Telephone Cases, 43 O. G. 377. 126 U. S. 1, 8 Sup. Ct. Rep. 778,) and its validity sustained. The history of the Bell telephone patents is the history of an enormous litigation, involving the truth of alleged anticipations sought, to be sustained by a marvelous mass of evidence. The invention was attacked as perhaps no other invention was ever before attacked. It was sustained, and its integrity established by tlie decision of the highest and the ultimate judicial…
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- Smith v. Goodyear Dental Vulcanite Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1877
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