Pooling Patents
Gramophone and Radio Sx leading electrical companies have reached an agreement to pool their patents covering the manufacture of radio gramophones. The companies are the Gramophone Co. (H.M.V.), Columbia Gramophone Co., Marconi, Western Hlectric, British Thomson-Houston, and Standard Telephones and Cables. The agreement marks an important step in the advancement of radio gramophone manufacture technique. It will also clear up a difficult situation, for prior to the agreement, it is stated, developments in the manufacture of radio gramophones were hampered by the danger of patent infringement. It is stipulated in the agreement that any manufacturer licensed to use the patents of the new pool must not import radio gramophones, and must make the instruments wholly in the United Kingdom. Some latitude may be permitted regarding the use of components, but licensees must conform broadly toe the definition of the Radio Manufactusers’ Association of "British manufacture." Since the companies mentioned own the bulk of the patents generally used. in radio gramophone construction, this stipulation gives a large measure of protection to British makers of radio gramophones and components.
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Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 41, 22 April 1932, Page 5
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179Pooling Patents Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 41, 22 April 1932, Page 5
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