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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1928.
MARCONI'S WIRELESS MONOPOLY
BROKEN.
RADIO INDUSTRY SURPRISE.
COMPTROLLER ORDERS & BIG REDUCTION OF
ROYALTIES...
A decision of vital importance to the future of the wireless trade in Great Britain has been made by the Comptroller of H.M. Patent Offer. It will affect the monopoly of the Marconi Company and up- set the present rate of royalties I paid in respect of wireless valves. The decision was given under a section, of the Patents and Designs | Art whith has been invoked only once before.
satisfied that a remedy for the abuse could not be secured by any other "means, he could order" the patent to be revoked.
"RING" CONTROL OF PRICES.
BRITISH GOVERNMENT CONTRACT.
GOES TO FRANCE,
HONG KONG STOCK EXCHANGE.
CLOSING QUOTATIONS.
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SEPTEMBER 167¤, 1928,
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The Post Offer authorities in London have issued a defence of their netion in having placed abroad a contract for bronze wire needed in the telephone service. It Mr. David Loewe, a director of had been stated, on behalf of the geza indrance......., Kiu nom, both the British and, the German British manufacturers whose ten-China Fire Lusurances....75 buy.
China Underwriter buy. ecmpanies, and a brother of Dr. ders were rejected, that the Leon Hong Kong Fire 1950s. Siegmund Loewe, the inventor of tract has been placed with the
nom.. Steamboata... 27+ buy. the Loewe valve, stated before the Trealière Company, of Havre, that
..У дом. Tribunal that at the
German the quantity of bronze wire invaly factory last year about 1,600 triple ed is sufficient for the requirements
$721 buy. valves sets, and about 430 long range of the telephone service during the to brief, it is that the royalties sets were manufactured daily dareuerent year, and that from 1,000 Kalan Mining Aunin.... vol. on the Loewe valve the applicang a "maximum" period.
to 1,200 tons of this wire are pur-Langkaca (comanadosnom tion was made by the Loewe Radio
based in A normal year from Shai, xorations
(81) 2.15 nom: Co.) are too high, and that they
British firms at an average cost of should be reduced from 81 178. 6d.
approximately 2100 a ton The official reply of the Post Office is in the following terms:
for triple valves and £32. sd. on the long range sets to 10s.. on each Loewe triple valve and 78. 6d. on cach Loewe döüble valve.
dur."
An, entirely new market, he said. had been opened in Germany. Half a million of these sets were sold last year to people who would other wise have been users of crystal sets. The Lowe yalve, in fact, had brought loudspeaker broadcast reception within the reach of large numbers of people who would other wise have had to be content with
"It is the settled policy of the Government not to disclose therefore canot publish, the value
Full tract prices, and the Post Omee of the order for bronze wire whet hus
been pinced abroad. The Select Commitee on Estimates of the house ut tommotis recommend-
consideratiun after
of the
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HK, W. Docks......... 37 nom..
ongew. Chins Providents...$5.66 bay, 5,70 L
„Tis. 156 nom. The respondents in the case were
we Cottons. The 11.10 bay, 11 sa Now y
Angabearings. 31 bay. Shangai Books. lub bay. the British Thomson-Houston Com.
Oriental Cottona
Fla. may. pany and the Marepni Company,
3 haz, Cottons (via) ............ BU Rom, who, in the opinion of the Comp-headphones.
Do. (W)....... 33 bay, troller, are substantially refds- In the event of his cbtaining aed,
HE. & S. Hetes...70 nom. B.K, Lands ing to grant licenèes on reasonable sence on terms which would enable effects of a ring
....ov) bay. on prices quoi-Shanghai Lanus
Tis. 130 buy. terms, and Arë thereby prejudicing the Loewe Company to manufactured to the Post Office, that the Post Humphreys Estates......$15.10 buy- the establishment of a new trade on a large setie in this country, he accept tenders from abroad i
thee stond have a free hand to H.. Rusiti. $3.65 buy, 8,90 val., 81. 8. or industry in the United King- added that he would be prepared cases where it is unable to obtain BK Tramways buy,
Peak Trams (oid)....
$13 buy jo give an undertaking to transfer | satisfactory. evidence that the The application was for the the whole of that manufacture from turers are
prices quoted by British manufac-Star Ferries
sure ony. grant of compulsory licences under the German factory to the British. The present case there was no satis
nut excessive; and five patents (which had been" refus-factory, This, he added, would be tactory evidence to that effect and ed by the Marconi Company) on in his interest, inasmuch as duties trary.
considerable evidence to the con- the ground that there bad been an
were payable in the Dominions on abuse of monopoly.
imported wireless apparatus and ther was a preferential tarifi in favour" of Great Britain.
Complete Receiver Expected To The decision to grant to the Loewe Radio Company a licence to manufacture and sell triple and double valves for wireless receivers on which the royalty to be paid to the Marconi Company will be 10%, and 74, od, respectively, is of great importance to listeners for two reasons.
The decision of the Comptroller is that the licence be granted and that the scale of royalties shall be is stated above,
Twenty-one days are allowed for the parties to settle the terins of the licence
In the long and chequered his tory of compulsory licences," writes the Comptroller in his 18 age "decision, there have been two alleged abuses: the use of a patent to reserve the home market for the sale of articles imported from abroad, and the use of n patent to block improvements by subsequent" "inventors.”.
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JOCKEY'S SECRET
WEDDING. DISCLOSURE DỪg To A RACING ERROR.
jockey, who had hoped to ride his.
It has been disclosed that Gordon Richards, the champion English
hundredth winner of the season at Haydock Pack, but did not succeed, was married last spring.
His aride was Miss Margaret Winckle, of Swindon, and the wed ding took place at Gerrard's Cross, Buckinghaidshire.
Gordon Richards, although his time is world-wide, is one of the most retiring of men, and always shuns publicity. Even some of his closest friends were unaware of the fact that he was RO longer a bachelor.
Uhina Lagats (old buy.
Do (kat buy. D. (1928 Janne; $tanbu bay,
He had intended that the an 12.40 B
nouncement of his marriage should H.K. Electrics (ald)... $521/52.56 bay.. be made on the day that he rede his
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100th winner: A mistake by the Da (new...$51 buy.
$1371/2 sal Macro Mécurioso buy...
judge in the Selling Handicap at Telephones.............................ǝ7 buy.
Haydock Park caused the pre- mature disclosure. Unnia Ruses. Il buy,
Richards had Singapore Tractions...bay. 137-selninety-aine winners: One day last already ridden Do. (Pret.)...lo buy, 19. month, as the horses flashed past the China Sugars ***** ....ǝl nois.
Augen... 17 żom.
post in a heavy downpour of rain. the judge confused the colours of the jockey of Wypo, the actual win- ner, with those of Richards, on Countess of Hainault the favourite..
the associated British makers for The prices quoted on behalf of the manufacture of the bronze wire (apart from the cost of "the prin cipal raw material, copper, which would necessarily be imported, whether the order, fur wirs went to British, firma or not) compared very unfavourably, not only with. the foreign prices for bronze wire, but with the British prices for manufacture of copper wire, in when there is effective competition boys)....... bay. from British Arms outside the a
suciation.
"Nevertheless, the Post Office
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in the first place, the multiple did not place the order abruzdor ang values to be manufactured will re- ruani shabad" made spec latively, be inexpensive; and induce the British firms to quote secondly, because it is reasonable reasonable price, and it even sug Of the dewe valve the Compto expect that the royalty at pre gested to them a price (allowing a roller writes. When we come to seht payable on ordinary receivers substancial margin over the foreign easider the scale on which the ap-s éd. per valve heider--will be price) at which it was ready to plicants hope to manufacture in materially reduced.
place a large order at once." this country, the Loewe valve will
Manufacturers' Case. The contract placed in France is stated to involve an expenditure of between E60,000 and £100,000. An ofheial of one of the largest
The Loewe triple valve really com be recognised as offering a new ad-prises a glass blub within which are vantage or utility for which it may three separate valves that are re- be well worth sacrificing the sistance coupled. A complete réi superior sensitiveness which the ceiver, therefore, may be construct use of reaction admittedly afforda.ed by connecting a voil and tuning Broadcasting has become a feature condenser to the triple valve, and of our national life, and a comise the usual batteries and the mercial policy which excludes large loud speaker. sections of the public from its full The Loewe Company has been sell enjoyment is not, we think, ing receivers in Germany at 95. justifiable policy.
each wholesale and 39. Bd, each re- The Marconi Company have tail, but it should not be expected secured a dominant position by that they will be sold as cheaply in They cannot have them because we gathering together in their own this country, because the whole-have been supplying material at hands a large series of patents xalers and retailers. here require prices which are alsolutely which, taken collectively, ever al-much larger percentages of profit urned, our dealings during recent economic. As far as we are con- most all broadcasting receivers of than dealers in Germany. an efficient character. It is to be
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rms in the industry said:-" The Post Office has been pressing us for but obviously we cannot compete years to lower our prices and we with the French prices... The Post have made sterilices for the sake of Office authorities peace.
evidently Now we have absolutely reached the limit, and the Govern under the impression that beccuse want further reductions. we have a trade association our pricts have been forced up. This is far from the fact. It is due to
brain-they want to smash the as- a misunderstanding of the whole position. They have got it on the
Whenever the associa sociation.
un-
is
mediately jump to the conclusion that it is a high one. The result was inevitable in view of the Post Other attitude.”
A complete receiver. may be extimes with the Post Office have not remarked that not one of the five pccted to cost at least £6, and it been on a commercial asis patents now in question is for a3 should be remembered that it will fact, we have been getting nothing tion quotes then a figure they im invention originating with Marconi Company. Three of theinceive a station such as London at all out of it. It is unfortunate within a radius of about 15 miles that the contract should go abroad, afe American, one is French, and only. one is German in origin.
- (Continued on meat Column)... It is a kind of super-monopoly.el for
Sample Loewe valves were chtain- The applicants cannot seek alter-They were, of course, made in it Erst some months ago. native terres from competing mono-Germany and the workmanship was polists. They are absolutely in the excellent. The triple valve has two hands of those who have gathered anode resistances, two coupling con- together this far-reaching aggrega denera and two grid leaks as well tion of monopolies."
as the three filaments, "grids, and anodes.
Appeal Probable..
agent
A well-known patent pointed out that in all matters affecting the law of patents the Comptroller had absolute power but that there was always the right of appeal, in this case the High Court..
Two of the valves are of the re- sistance capacity: type. while the third, which has, the loud speaker connected to it, is of the power type. The first valve is employed to rectify the signals collected by the aerial, the second one magnifies thera, and the third valve operates the loud speaker.
I consider it quite probable that there will be an appeal," he said. The financial interests in- No provision is made for rene- volved are so immense that it seems tion, with the resul; that a receiver unlikely that the companies con-including one of these triple valves cerned will take the decision lying has a rather limited range. But down."
the Loewe Company manufacture a There were certain circumstances double valve for high frequency in which the monopoly rights amplification which may be used under a patent would be consider with the triple valve. The double ed to have been abused, he said.
valve does not give great amplifica- If the demand for the patented tion on the ordinary broadcast ware article was not being met to an lengths, but it does give reasonable adequate extent and on reasonable magnification of the signals sent terms, for instance, or if the re-
out by the long wave-length stations fusal of the patentee to grant such as Daventry SXX. licences On reasonable termy The selectivity, too, will be better damaged the trade of any persona when the two separate valves are in this country, or was prejudicial used together in one receiver-
the establishment of any new trade or industry in this country. Loewe combination with the triple As a single station receiver the If, he continued, the Comptroller valve will probably be satisfactory. of the Patent Office was satisfied but it will not be sufficiently power- that there had been an abuse of the ful, neither is it likely to possess nonopoly rights, he might order sufficient selectivity, for distant the patent to be endorsed with the stations to be received. words, licences of right." This
meant that every holder of a It is interesting to note that the licence from, the patentee could"ap-| company undertakes the repair of ply to the Comptroller for an order valves that have been damaged. entitling him to surrender bis They will repair broken filaments licence in exchange for one the at little cost, with the result that
GRAND
Sookumpoo,
The number of Richards' mount was hoisted as the winner. The news was flashed out that he had completed the 100. The correction came soon afterwards.
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Paris
Brussels
Brony, Sept. 25th.
124.10
34.90
Amsterdam Berlin
12.093
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Vienna
34.14
Helsingfors
199!
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95.20
92.75
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18.19
1637
29.30
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Madrid
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375
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