Show SMOOTH SCHEME OF BATHTUB TRUST TO 1 EVADE SHERMAN 8 ERMAN LAW W WASHINGTON Oct Oct S. S Warnings against being bamboozled by the so called calel bathtub trust figured prominently prominent prominent- ly Jy In tho the br brief t of ot the tha the department of or Jus Justice JUI- JUI tc tice tico filed te tod today y in the supreme court for forth th tho guidance of ot the te Justices Justice in considering consider consider- Ing the question whether the tha combination shall bo dissolved in accordance with wih the tho decree of the tho Maryland Malal federal court curt Attorney General Wickersham and his special assistant Edwin P P. Grosvenor Informed in informed In- In formed tho the court that that the called license arrangement of ot the tho accused ers era W was merely the latest and therefore the ovad- ovad most fashionable contrivance for In Inc ing the rules prescribed by the tho Sherman Sherma act act In tho the conduct of ot Interstate cornin com corn in merce erco TIle The arrangement referred to was a n plan wh whereby reby the user of a patented dredger used In making bathtubs leased the tho dredger dreger to the manufacturers on conditions r regulating the tho prices at which the tho tubs were to be sold cold and ad re re- re- re sold Tho Government contended throughout Its brief that the patent laws gave no noone ono one a n right to violate the other othar laws of the United States particularly the Sherman Sherman Sher Sher- man law Jaw It I dwelt del upon the importance o of the case cae because the the license arrangement arrange arrango- ment had b become come popular sinco the te su supreme supreme eu- eu su- su preme court had struck down don the holdIng holdIng hold Ing company method of ot violating the antitrust law Manufacturers of or an article ar ar- ar- ar cannot destroy tide said ad tho the brief competition among themselves by enterIng enter enter- Ing Into uniform license agreements agreement to In the manufacture of th I article artcle a patented tool and by Incorporating incorporating aUng In such agreements agreement uniform noncompetItive non- non of oC sale and andI competItive prices 1 and ter terms I resale of or the tho patented article artcle |