FACTORIES AND PATENTS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 24

FACTORIES AND PATENTS

CO-OPERATION IN AMERICA

Those people who imagine that their ideal motor-Mr is tio-l up by patents will be interested to hear the following of tho industry in America:— "The highest honour for co-opera-tivo trade association work was awarded to tho motor industry at the dmner of the American Trade Association executives in Washington recenHy when the first prize was given to the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce for the cross-licensing patente agrcemen under which automobile manufacturers °P°< rThi3 is the first offering of a prize by the trade executives, membership of which covers 440 associations. _ "Tho prize is offered for 'original and outstanding service to the public, and ww awarded to the automobile manufacturers' orgamsa hon for UB patents agreement, under which 1/00 patents owned by the members™ Jnado available to all members witn"""lu 8 making the presentation of the bronze medallion, Secretary or Commerce Eobert P. Lament declared the seven Judges had voted unanimously that "the patents agreement was the most representative achievement in all trade association history. "In presenting the award, Secretary Lament said: 'This award was mado for original and outstanding service to the public, and represents an advance: over most trade association work, ahe achievement is of paramount importance because of the magmtudo of the automobile industry and the strength of tho association representing it. in its unanimous decision this committee singed out this work as the most representative in all trade association, hl"He" declared further that it resulted in great public benefit by allowing each manufacturer to use the latest improvements originated by any company "It works a step in advance.of most association work, and is considered of tremendous importance because of the magnitude of the automobile industry and the strength of the association representing it. " "The medallion portrays 'Progress Through Co-operation'—co-operation, the most worthy endeavour of modern times and the hope of the future."