Word: patentable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Edwin, David and Geoffrey Grove, young (8,6,4) sons of Edwin W. Grove Jr., patent medicine (Bromo Quinine) heir; in a fire that razed the Grove's Italian-style country home; in Northport, Me., while their mother was in Boston expecting another child...
...firm could compete better in world markets. Singer was turned down, although it promised not to take more than half its export profits off the island. ¶ Parke, Davis & Co. wanted to manufacture Chloromycetin, pointed out that it cost the Japanese a precious $300,000 annually for patent rights to make it themselves, but got nowhere...
...lawyer named Adlai Stevenson, jobless for almost two years, out of law practice for seven, was retained by Radio Corp. of America to fight a patent monopoly suit (for the past six years fought mostly with press releases) brought against RCA by Zenith Radio Corp. Rusty, perhaps, but always game, Attorney Stevenson filed a petition seeking a delay of the trial with the U.S. Supreme Court, whose Associate Justice Sherman Minton at week's end turned Stevenson's brief down cold, also denied Stevenson's request for a hearing...
With its vast collection of some 10,000 radio-TV manufacturing patent rights, Radio Corporation of America is in an enviable position: every one of its competitors pays RCA handsome royalties on just about every set they turn out. Though most of them are unhappy with the arrangement, they have been unable to do much about it. Last week the Justice Department decided to have a try, filed an antitrust suit in Manhattan's District Court...
Justice charged that the RCA patents were built up by agreements with "co-conspirators," A.T. & T., Bell Telephone Laboratories, Western Electric, General Electric and Westinghouse. It also charged that they all "harassed" other manufacturers with more than 250 patent suits in order to keep them in line...