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The March of Radio
ARMSTRONG S SUPER-HETERODYNE
In a glorified form, it was one of the features of the radio exposition held in New York. Western Electric loud speakers, each operated from its own power amplifier, were placed in various points in the Grand Central Palace. The plate voltage was supplied by a great number of standard 6-inch dry cells, and about thirty-six vacuum tubes were used. Radio engineers predicted failure for this outfit, which was installed and operated by the Radio Club of America with complete success. Left to right, in the picture, are: L. S. Byers of the Exposition Company; Louis G. Pacent, chairman of the Committee on Papers; George Burghard, President; and Edwin H. Armstrong, Past President of the Radio Club
tested as it is to the Radio Corporation. Not until its validity has been judicially determined is it possible to evaluate the proper royalty basis for a patent. Until this is done, there will be continual confusion, and the radio patent situation in the United States will remain unprofitable to inventors and unsound as far as manufacturers are concerned. We, therefore, have instituted suitable action to reach sound conclusions. We go so far as to believe that all holders of radio patents should do the same thing, if this present complex and disturbing situation is to be clarified.
An infringer of patents has the advantage that he has no patent investment, no research to finance, no responsibility to the art. He can make a thing and sell it; if he makes a dollar profit it belongs to him until the Courts take it away from him, which can only happen after a long litigation. The great concern which has made all this development possible, which has spent millions in clearing the road for American radio has to earn something on what it spent in acquiring that pathway. Enforcement of its patent rights with the Federal Courts will help it to earn that something. If its rights are not as broad as it believes them to be the Courts will say so.
In its efforts to test its rights and find out just what they really are and to enforce them the Radio Corporation should have the sympathy of everyone who really wishes the good of the radio art; for if such rights acquired under such circumstances and at such cost are not sustained and enforced, who again will feel justified in taking the risks and making the expenditures that were taken and made when the Radio Corporation was formed?
We must have it clear in our minds that a patent under the constitutional laws of the United States grants to the inventor or to the person to whom he has assigned the patent, the exclusive right of its use. This means that with perfect legality and due regard for the ethics of the situation, the Radio Corporation has such exclusive right to its property in patents. Any one not fn agreement with this disagrees with the Constitution of the United States and the laws passed in conformity with it having for a purpose the establishing of patent privileges to inventors and owners of patents.
There has been a suggestion for a cooperative pooling of radio patents in order that all companies can manufacture radio apparatus without fear of patent difficulties. According to the best of my in