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CARTER v. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 3-1294.

250 F.Supp. 188 (1966)

Thomas F. CARTER and Carter Electronics Corporation, Plaintiffs, v. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY et al., Defendants.

United States District Court N. D. Texas, Dallas Division.

February 8, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geary, Brice & Lewis, by Ray Besing, and William VanDercreek, Dallas, Tex., for plaintiffs.

Charles Ryan, New York City, Wayne Babler and Melvin R. Quinlan, James M. Shatto, St. Louis, Mo., Edgar Mayfield, James Hand and H. W. Strasburger, Dallas, Tex., Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, by Leroy Jeffers, Harry M. Reasoner, and Richard P. Keeton, Houston, Tex., for American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

Burford, Ryburn & Ford, by Frank M. Ryburn, Jr., Dallas, Tex., for the General Telephone Co. of the Southwest.

ESTES, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs, Thomas F. Carter and Carter Electronics Corporation, claim that they manufacture and sell a device called the "Carterfone," which permits a person receiving an incoming telephone call to transmit such call from the location received to another location by the use of two-way radio communication. The party receiving the incoming telephone call places the telephone receiver handset on a cradle which forms part of the Carterfone; and by...

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