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Show RIGHT TO FIX I PRIffiDEMED I Patentee Cannot Control Rates E at Which Patented Articles May Be Sold at Retail. New York. March 24. The right ot r: a patentee under the patent law to fix the price at which a patented ar K tide mu6t be sold at retail, was de- W nled by Judge Augustus N Hand, in n a decision handed down yesterday In the United States district courL A fc suit brought by the Victor Talking Machine company to restrain R. II. K Macy and company from selling pho- 1 nographs and records at a lower pri K than that fixed by the Victor compa- K ny, was dismissed by Judge Hand. k Counsel for R. H Macy and com- K pany had alleged that in consequeme f' of a decision by the United States su- preme court iu the Saatogen case to t the effect that the owner of a patent K could not control the retail price, tin- K Victor Talking Machine company d - K vised a system by which it sold none of its patented articles but disposed In of them under a license system at a mf stipulated price to the ultimate con- ?' sumer. J The Macy firm refused to bo bouml P by this plan. Judge Hand ruled that E v. he re Was onlv a formal difference be- It lv. een the Sanatogen case and th K Victor case. f |