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BOUCHER INVENTIONS v. SOLA ELECTRIC CO.

No. 7827.

131 F.2d 225 (1942)

BOUCHER INVENTIONS, Limited, et al. v. SOLA ELECTRIC CO. et al.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 30, 1942.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mr. Herbert S. Ward, with whom Messrs. John Howard Joynt and Scott D. Kellogg were on the brief, all of Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Mr. Leslie W. Fricke, of Chicago, Ill., with whom Mr. Nelson J. Jewett, of Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees.

Before STEPHENS, VINSON and RUTLEDGE, Associate Justices.

RUTLEDGE, Associate Justice.

The suit is to obtain letters patent, filed by Boucher1 pursuant to Rev.Stat. § 4915 (1878), 35 U.S.C. 63 (1934). The question is one of priority, which in turn rests on reduction to practice.

The invention eliminates the danger of burning out from short circuits in the secondary coils of transformers used in lighting electric neon lights or neon tubes. Sola conceived it early in 1933. His application...

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