20 F. 502 | U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Southern New York | 1884
This is an amended bill brought upon five different patents, — one for an electric lighting system, one for an improved regulator for electric lights, one for an improvement in electric lamps, one for an improvement in carbons for electric lights, and one for an improvement in the treatment of carbons for electric lights,-^-and is demurred to for multifariousness. The bill alleges that the patented inventions are capable of being used conjointly; that the orator makes, uses, and sells conjointly, as parts of the same electric lighting system, each and all of said inventions in some essential and material parts thereof; that the defendant is infringing each and all of these patents by making, selling, and using each and all of said inventions conjointly, in a system of electric lighting, the same substantially as that of the orator. The titles of the patents, as well as the patents themselves, of which profert is made, show that these inventions may be used separately,, and operate independently, with respect to each
Thu demurrer is sustained and the bill adjudged insufficient.
