Westinghouse Electric & Mfg. Co. v. Mutual Life Ins.
Citations
- 129 F. 213
- 1904 U.S. App. LEXIS 4744
Syllabus
<p>L Patents — Anticipation—Infringement—Electric Motors.</p> <p>The Tesla patents, Nos. 511,559 and 511,560, the former covering a method, and the latter certain apparatus or means of operating electric motors by means of alternating currents from a single original source known as the “split-phase” system, held not anticipated by the publication in Milan of a lecture by Prof. Galileo Farraris April 22, 1888, on evidence which clearly and satisfactorily carries the invention back to September, 1887. Such patents also held valid, and both claims of the former and. claims 1 and 2 of the latter infringed by the Gutmann recording watt meter.</p> <p>2. Same — Suit fob Infringement — Pasties.</p> <p>An agent is not properly joined with his principal as a defendant in a suit for infringement because of acts done in his capacity as such agent, in the absence of special circumstances.</p> <p>3. Same — Defenses.</p> <p>It is not a defense to a suit for infringement against a user that a decree has previously been obtained against the maker, from whom the defendant bought the infringing article.</p> <p>If 2. See Patents, vol. 38, Cent. Dig. §§ 459, 471.</p>
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- holding that “proposed protective order creates an unacceptable risk of inadvertent disclosure”
- holding that “proposed protective order creates an unacceptable risk of inadvertent disclosure”
- court refused to modify existing protective order based on party’s assertion that it needed its decision-makers to have access to documents to make an “educated business decision with regard to the litigation”
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