Edison v. American Mutoscope Co.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Appeal from the Circuit Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. This was an appeal from a decree adjudging the validity and infringement of letters patent No. 589,168, granted August 31, 1897, to Thomas A. Edison, for a kinetographic camera. See no Fed. 660, 664.
1Opinion of the Court
WALLACE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a decree sustaining the validity, and adjudging the infringement by the defendant, of letters patent No. 589,168, for a kinetographic camera, granted to Thomas A. Edison August 31, 1897. The patent contains six claims; the first, second, third, and fifth being the only ones in controversy. The assignments of error challenge the validity of the claims, and contest the infringement of the fifth claim.
The purpose of the patented invention is to produce pictures, “representing objects in motion throughout an extended period of time, which may be…
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