Word: patently
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Captain Benjamin Leavitt, who was not content that this paltry 30 fathoms should be set as a lower limit to his activities. In 1922 he bought a ship, the Blakely, from the Shipping Board. He fitted her out for diving and salvaging, and laid in an equipment of patent diving suits of manganese bronze (which resists salt water corrosion), with flexible parts of interlocking copper tubing and ball bearing joints, with portable air equipment, carrying a four-hour supply of oxygen and a telephone...
...long ago, an enterprising gentleman named Van Heusen invented a soft collar for male wearers, and obtained basic patent rights to the product. Subsequently, he sold these patents to the Phillips-Jones Co., and has received $1,000,000 in royalties for this invention. So many consumers became converts to the soft collar that existing makers of hard collars began to feel the competition seriously, began to make soft collars themselves, in alleged violation of the Van Heusen patents. Chief among these were Cluett, Peabody & Co., Earl & Wilson, Manhattan Shirt Co., Hall Hartwell Co., George P. Ide Co., Vanzandt...
...Phillips-Jones Co., whose losses under this alleged patent infringement have been stated at $4,000,000, brought suit against the above-mentioned concerns a year and a half ago. Prolonged litigation ensued, which has only recently been terminated by settlement out of court. The Phillips-Jones Co. have received a "substantial sum," and under agreement with the defendant concerns will issue licenses permitting the latter to manufacture the two-piece collar on a royalty basis. The Phillips-Jones Co. continues to hold the exclusive right to make the one-piece collar...
...which prescribed the action of certain hirelings who, with hammer, rope, wire, went about their business in the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan. They were preparing for the exhibition of the New Society of Artists. The doors of the gallery opened, the judgments of the committee and the consequent hangings stood patent to oglers...
...fact, so many ideas from the Triangle shows have been incorporated in Broadway performances that it has been found necessary to patent these innovations. Notable among the contributions to the world of stage have been "Radium Ballet" from "The Man from Earth," and the picturesque opening scene of the second act of "Drake's Drum," in which unusual effects of cloud and water drawing were obtained. Both were subsequently to be seen on Broadway...