LEVITON MANUFACTURING CO. v. SLATER ELECTRIC, INC.

No. 67 C 991.

331 F.Supp. 395 (1970)

LEVITON MANUFACTURING CO., Inc., a corporation, Plaintiff, v. SLATER ELECTRIC, INC., a corporation, Defendant.

United States District Court, E. D. New York.

September 29, 1970.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hanse H. Hamilton, New York City, for plaintiff.

Robert R. Keegan and Michael J. Sweedler, New York City (Darby & Darby, New York City, of counsel), for defendant.


DOOLING, District Judge.

Plaintiff has sued for a declaratory judgment that its light-dimming devices do not infringe defendant's Slater patent Reissue 26,119 and that the patent is invalid. Defendant counterclaims for infringement.

It is concluded that the patent is invalid so far as concerns claims 1, 2, 8 and 9, and if the said claims were valid, there would be infringement only by plaintiff's Model No. 671.

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