LEKTOPHONE CORPORATION v. WESTERN ELECTRIC CO.


20 F.2d 150 (1927)

LEKTOPHONE CORPORATION v. WESTERN ELECTRIC CO., Inc.

District Court, S. D. New York.

July 12, 1927.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pennie, Davis, Marvin & Edmonds, of New York City (William H. Davis, Vernon T. Houghton and R. Morton Adams, all of New York City, of counsel), for plaintiff.

Gifford & Scull, of New York City (Charles Neave and George F. Scull, both of New York City, of counsel), for defendant.


THACHER, District Judge (after stating the facts as above).

As Judge Campbell pointed out in the Sylo Case, supra, the Hopkins loud speaker is something more than a mere improvement upon the sound-box horn combination, because Hopkins discarded the sound box and horn and successfully developed a sounding board directly radiating sound waves in unconfined air. The prior art devices are of two types, roughly classified as sounding boards and sound-box and horn combinations...

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