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Radio Broadcast
license to use patents valuable to the manufacture of radio apparatus is well within the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy.
On Aug. 5, 1920, the Secretary of the Navy granted to the International Radio Telegraph Company a non-exclusive, irrevocable license, without royalty, to make, use, and sell for the purposes and to the extent which the department has a right to do the inventions covered by the patents.
The theory on which the independent manufacturers requested grant of license was that such grant would tend to advance the welfare of the people of the United States and would promote a healthy competition in the manufacture and sale of radio apparatus; that to withhold such license would tend to injure the public welfare by tending to promote monopoly contrary to the policy declared by the Sherman act; that the denial of the license to the applicants would make the International Radio Telegraph Company the only licensee, which would be inconsistent with governmental policy as to monopoly.
As a part consideration for granting the license, the independent radio manufacturers agreed to grant to the United States of America, represented by the Secretary of the Navy, a non-transferable, non-exclusive license under United States letters patent which they now own or may hereafter own during the term of the agreement, to make or have made for it and use for governmental purposes apparatus utilizing or embodying
the inventions of their patents, but not for sale.
It is claimed that this grant of license by the Navy Department to the independent radio manufacturers will completely change the complexion of patent litigation.
One of the chief obstacles to the greatest development of the industry is thus removed. The complexities of the radio patent situation have been minimized.
A "muffler" or "blocking" tube is a vacuum tube used in a special circuit to climate radiation from a receiving set. The patent which covers this method of preventing radiation is owned by the United States Navy Department. Proposals have been made to release the invention to the public so that American manufacturers can develop a device to stop the interference caused by radiation of receivers.
The patent was originally issued on Feb. 17, 1914, by the United States Patent Office to two Germans, Wilhelm Schloemilch and Otto von Bronk. The patent is 1,087,892 and is titled "Means for Receiving Electrical Oscillations."
Since this patent was finally granted during the World War to citizens of Germany it was seized by the Alien Property Custodian Jan. 28, 1919. It was sold by the Alien Property Custodian on Feb. 6, 1919, to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy. The legal title now belongs to the United States Navy Department.— New York Times.
THE COVERED WAGON IN NEW MEXICO
Captain Irwin navigating a pass through the mountains in New Mexico on his way to California. He is now in California where great interest is being show in the WAGON and its cargo of receivers developed in
the RADIO BROADCAST LABORATORY