Radio annual and television yearbook (1938)

denser used for easy compensation of the several tuned stages of the high frequency amplifier of broadcast receivers. In the talking picture art, Radio Corporation of America litigated a number of its patents against R. M. Like et al and also against Balsley & Phillips, Inc., Ltd., in the United States District Court for the Southern District of California at Los Angeles. This litigation included the following patents: Langmuir patents 1,297,188, 1,313,094 for System for Amplifying Variable Currents; Moore patent 1,316,967 for Gaseous Conduction Lamp; Steiner patent 1,614,214 for Means for Supporting and Driving Films; Hoxie patents 1,646,249 for Narrow Light Aperture, and 1,756,863 for Method of Making Motion Pictures; Robinson patent 1,854,159 for Sound Recording; and Heisler patent 1,920,789 for Film Driving Apparatus. Montgomery Ward & Company was defendant in a suit brought by Condenser Development Corporation, which was appealed to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals under Cramer patent 1,800,719 for Electrical Condenser and Tompkins patent 1,932,328 for Condenser Frame Construction. Condenser Development Corporation also litigated these patents against Walgreen Company of New York and Davega City Radio, Inc., in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Amy, Aceves & King, Inc. sued Technical Appliance Corporation under patent 1,920,162, Amy & King, for Radio Aerial Attachment; patents 1,938,092, 1,976,910 and 2,002,844 for Radio Receiving Systems; and Reissue patent 19,854 for Duplex Radio Aerial System, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. The suit by Wired Radio, Inc. against Broadcast Station WFBE, Inc. was dismissed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Western Division. This litigation involved Crossley patent 1,901,735 for Piezo Electric Crystal System, and .1,627,958 for Radio Frequency Choke Coil System; Walker patent 1,831,151 for Temperature Control System for Frequency Determining Elements; Hund patents 1,822,928 for Piezo Electric Plate, and 1,649,828 for Method of Preparing Piezo Electric Plates. Ruben Condenser Company was active in suits against Concourse Electric Company, Inc.; Polymet Manufacturing Corporation; R. H. Macy & Company; and Fischer Distributing Corporation, under Ruben Electrolytic Condenser patents 1,710,073 and 1,714,191. (Continued from Page 766) Investigation for the purpose of extending to the advertiser an opportunity to negotiate a settlement of the issues. When the matter cannot be adjusted satisfactorily by correspondence, the advertiser is accorded the privilege of a personal conference with the Special Board, either with or without counsel, where he is allowed full opportunity to justify his claims. If, upon due consideration, the Special Board is of the opinion that the respondent has not established the truth of his claims, he is offered the privilege of closing the matter by signing a stipulation whereby he agrees to discontinue making the assertions deemed misleading. Where the respondent declines to stipulate, the case is reported by the board to the Commission, together with a stenographic transcript of the hearing, all exhibits, records and other evidence; where upon the Commission, if it has reason to believe from the showing made that the advertiser has violated the law, issues a formal complaint against him, and he is given twenty days within which to file an answer, after which proof is taken before a trial examiner, briefs are filed by both sides, and the case is heard by the Commission and oral argument granted, if desired. The decision of the Commission, when a cease and desist order is entered, is subject to review by the United States Circuit Courts of Appeals and may finally reach the Supreme Court of the United States. However, an overwhelming per cent of all advertising cases have been settled amicably, usually by stipulation as the result of the preliminary negotiations and without the issuance of formal complaint, and only a few are ever appealed from the Commission to the courts. 768