Show AN UNRESTRICTED MONOPOLY Majority Members of Supreme Court Decide Owners of Patent May Fix its Price and Describe Its Use Washington The TIie The supreme court on I Monday held that the owner of a patent patent patent pat pat- ent has an unrestricted monopoly upon all articles used in its operation may fix its price and prescribe its us usand usand use and th thereby reby laid down a broad principle principle principle prin prin- ciple of doubtful application to many of the governments government's trust anti suits which involve questions of patent rights The court stood four to three Chief Justice White with whom dissented Justices Lamar and Hughes in a spirIted spirited spir spir- ted opinion voiced his dread of the results of the he courts court's work asking who could foretell the extent of monopoly monopoly monopoly mo mo- and wrongful restrictions which would arise As construed by bythe bythe the he majority of the court the chief justice ustice declared the patent law could reach out to Include within a patent every conceivable thing used in every ev ev- ev- ev cry ery American household The chief Justice said that congress should hould act to head off untold evils which would follow the courts court's conil con- con il ruction of f the law and arraigned the he majority as having broken all precedents The court in its history he le said had never failed to do Its duty to the whole people and to stand as the protector of every house house- hold bald Justice Lurton who delivered the majority opinion was joined by Justices Just- Just ices CPS McKenna Holmes and Vande- Vande |