Western Electric Manufacturing Co. v. Ansonia Brass & Copper Co.
Supreme Court of the United States
APPEAL FROM THE OIECUIT COURT OK THE UNITED STATES FOB THE DISTRICT OK CONNECTICUT. The case was a suit in equity, brought by the appellant, the Western Electric Manufacturing Company, against the Ansonia Brass and Copper Conypany to, restrain the infringement of two reissued letters patent, numbered 6,954 and 6,955 respectively, granted to the appellant as the assignee of Joseph Olm-stead, both dated February 29, 1876, for improvements in insulating telegraph wires.
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APPEAL FROM THE OIECUIT COURT OK THE UNITED STATES FOB THE DISTRICT OK CONNECTICUT. The case was a suit in equity, brought by the appellant, the Western Electric Manufacturing Company, against the Ansonia Brass and Copper Conypany to, restrain the infringement of two reissued letters patent, numbered 6,954 and 6,955 respectively, granted to the appellant as the assignee of Joseph Olm-stead, both dated February 29, 1876, for improvements in insulating telegraph wires. The reissues are divisions of original letters patent No. 129,858, dated July 23, 1872. The descriptive specifications of .the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Woods
He stated the facts in the foregoing language, and continued :
It is clear that the two patents must stand or fall together. If the patent for the process is invalid so-must be the patent for the product. What we have to say will refer to the process patent.
The alleged invention described in the patent is not for insulating telegraph wires, for that art long antedated the original patent. The specification disclaims as a part of the invention the braiding of a fibrous covering over the wire, and then dipping it in wax for the purpose of filling and closing the pores, and the subsequent…
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