Word: patenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the 514 cases docketed this term, 140 deal with taxation, ten with criminal law, 16 with Prohibition, 26 with Indians, 25 with personal-injury damages. Famed business cases to be heard: 1) Standard Oil gasoline "cracking" patent pool; 2) Paramount-Famous-Lasky "bloc booking" of cinema films; 3) Chicago telephone rate case...
...Federal District Court at St. Paul last week rang to the sound of big figures, big names. A widow filed suit against Inland Steel Co., Great Northern Railway Co. for patent infringement, filed similar suits against U. S. Steel Corp. and its subsidiaries Carnegie Steel Co., U. S. Steel Products Co. Five hundred million dollars -a half-billion-is the total of her claims, but the figure's reverberations seemed to have a hollow ring...
...occasion to flay U. S. manufacturers of X-ray tubes. Bold was his charge: "The larger companies of unlimited financial resources apparently limit their researches and developments of improved apparatus or X-ray tubes to those improvements that promise large profits. One such organization in this country controls the patent rights to manufacture X-ray tubes exclusively** and as a result charges prohibitory prices [$125~$450] for the necessary tubes of the physicians who must purchase them for X-ray diagnosis and the treatment of cancer...
...went to 400,000 volts, we could get practically radium rays from an X-ray tube. We know results would be better. But we cannot go that high, for we lack tubes to stand it, and so far no one has dared to tackle their development because of the patent monopoly...
...harder. When they permit themselves an artistic experiment they do it less in jealousy of the laurels of literary-minded competitors than with a shrewd eye for cash profits. Last week the Shuberts said that they were going into the cinema business. Instead of paying royalties to U. S. patent holders they had bought a talking device outright from a Swiss inventor, one Oscar Lissau. Their first production will be a photograph of their currently successful comedy, Ladies All. They will follow this by photographing other plays to which they own rights. They will present their pictures for first runs...