RADTKE PATENTS CORPORATION v. COE

No. 7577.

122 F.2d 937 (1941)

RADTKE PATENTS CORPORATION et al. v. COE, Com'r of Patents, et al.

United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided June 30, 1941.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leonard Day, A. K. Shipe, Walter E. Gallagher, and John J. Sirica, all of Washington, D. C., for appellants Radtke Patents Corporation and another.

Joseph A. Shay, of Hollywood, Cal., and Thomas Ball, of Los Angeles, Cal., for appellants Whitson Photophone Corporation and another.

W. W. Cochran and H. S. Mackey, both of Washington, D. C., for U. S. Patent Office.

Leslie C. Garnett, Samuel F. Beach, and Kenneth S. Neal, all of Washington, D. C., for appellees American Tri-Ergon Corporation and another.

Fulton Brylawski, of Washington, D. C., and Stephen H. Philbin, of New York City, filed a brief as amicus curiae.

Before STEPHENS, MILLER and RUTLEDGE, Associate Justices.


MILLER, Associate Justice.

On March 3, 1919, Hans Vogt, Josef Engl and Joseph Massolle filed a joint German application for letters patent for a sound-reproducing apparatus. On April 4, 1921, Vogt, Engl, and Massolle made a joint application for letters patent of the United States for a sound-reproducing apparatus. Appellees American Tri-Ergon Corporation and Tri-Ergon Holding A. G. are the assignees in interest of all rights under the application of Vogt, Engl and...

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