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Show AN UNRESTRICTED MONOPOLY Majority Member of Supreme Court Decide Owner of Patent May Fix it Price and Describe it Use. Washington. The supreme court on Monday held that the owner of a pftt-tit pftt-tit 1i:im hii unrestricted Monopoly upon all articles used In It h opei at Ion, may fix flu price and prescribe Its use und thereby laid down u broad principle prin-ciple of doubt fill application to many of the c.oveinineni'H unll trust suits which Involve questions of patent right. The court Mood four to three. Chief Justice While, with whom dissented Justices Uunur and Hughes, In a spirited spir-ited opinion voiced Ms dread of the results of the court's work, asking who could foretell the extent of monopoly mo-nopoly and wrongful restrictions which would aii.se. As construed by the majority of the court, the chief Justice dedured the patent law could reach out to Include within a patent every conceivable thing used In every ev-ery American household. The chief Justice slid that congress rhould act to head off "untold evils" which would follow the court's con-to con-to ruction of the law and arraigned the majority an having broken all precedents. The court, In its history, he said, had never failed to do Itx duly to the whole people and to stand as the protector of every household. house-hold. Justice hurton, who delivered the niu.ioiit) opinion, was Joined by Justices Just-ices McKenna, Holmes and Vnnde-vanter. |