Henry Green Seeks an Injunction against Burton Baker

11/02/1911 |

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Henry Green appeared before Judge James P. Platt in the US Circuit Court to request an injunction against Burton Baker.

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Green appeared with his lawyer, Harris E. Hart.
Green alleged that Baker was infringing on patents to which he claimed he had exclusive right.

The patents covered an improvement on “Roentgen ray tubes” that Green claimed Henry Lyman Sayen had invented
The patents were issued and assigned to Queen & Co.
Green claimed that Queen & Co. had assigned exclusive rights under the patents to him on January 11, 1911.

Baker denied the claim that Sayen was the inventor.

He claimed that the improvement in question was in use in Hartford before Sayen discovered it.
He claimed that it had been in use by George N. Bell, John B. Boucher, W. R. Munson, Oliver C. Smith, and Arthur J. Wolff, all of Hartford.
He also claimed that “others” were using it as well.

Platt did not finish hearing testimony and continued the hearing until November 28.

The past recalled

Green was a third party in Queen & Co. v. Roentgen Manufacturing Company on June 2, 1908.
Green applied for a patent on x-ray tubes on November 23, 1909.

The future foretold

Green would apply for a patent on x-ray tubes on July 12, 1912.

For the record

Henry L. Saven lived in Philadelphia.
Burton Baker lived at 438 Asylum Street, and he had professional and personal connections to the University of Pennsylvania.
George N. Bell was the doctor present when Green attempted to use an x-ray to locate a bullet in Theodore Studley’s leg.
Arthur J. Wolff had given demonstrations on x-rays with William Robb at Trinity College in February 1896.

Sources

Unattributed, "Hartford Men Involved Over Roentgen Rays," Hartford Courant, November 3, 1911, page 4.

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