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...Professor Drinker has no connection with the respirator-patent suit now being pressed by Warren E. Collins, Inc. against J. H. Emerson, or any financial interest in the Collins company," H. R. Guild '17, attorney for Drinker, asserted last night in a denial of charges that Drinker is a secret stock holder in the Collins company and is supplying financial aid in the law suit to determine the validity of the respirator patents now held by Collins...
...lean son of long, lean Public Health Man Dr. Haven Emerson of Manhattan, and strode out of the presidential mansion. He loaded a respirator on the rear end of his rebuilt Buick, and with his wife went peddling respirators in competition with Harvard's long, lean Professor Philip Drinker. Professor Drinker, through Warren E. Collins Inc., the cautious Boston manufacturers to whom he assigned patents on the respirator which has saved hundreds of chest paralyzed cases, sued rambunctious John Haven Emerson for patent infringement...
...Emerson, who runs a small shop near Harvard Square with Maxfield Parrish Jr. (son of the artist) and David Garrison as associates, counter-claimed that Mr. Drinker, assistant professor of ventilation & illumination in Harvard's School of Public Health, appropriated certain Emerson inventions for the famed Drinker respirator. Indignant Mr. Emerson has roused a faction of Harvard's Medical School to similar indignation, over the fact that Mr. Drinker drew fat royalties ($300 alleged) on every Drinker respirator sold by Warren E. Collins Inc. Builder Emerson claims that $1,500 for a Drinker machine is "robbery," sells...
Meanwhile a frustrated old country doctor, Dr. Charles Morgan Hammond, 64, moped. Dr. Hammond practices in Memphis, lives across the Mississippi River at rural Hulbert, Ark. In his garage is a respirator similar to the ones Philip Drinker and John Haven Emerson are selling & fighting about. Dr. Hammond built his first respirator in 1903, applied for a patent in 1910 through Orson Desaix Munn, the patent attorney who owns the Scientific American. The Patent Office refused him because his machine was considered too slow to be of value in acute narcoses and too limited in its field for general purposes...
Although the Corporation as an afterthought tactfully suggests that the resolution is in no wise ot be taken as a reflection on either Drinker or the Collins Company, it is too obvious that as the University, retreating from the melee, determines to forestall a similar abuse, it is at the same time making a final pass at the enfant terrible...