ROYAL INVENTOR
A REMARKABLE APPLICATION (“Sydney Sun” Service.) (Recd. 10 a.m.) ’ . LONDON, March 24. Admiral Mark Kerr, executor of the late Ma'rquis MilfordhaVen’s estate, formerly Prince Louis of Battenburg, petitioned the Inventors Commission to recognise the claim of the . late Prince, in connection with the course indicator invented in the nineties,
when officers. , were not allowed, to patent inventions. The navy used seventeen hundred and the. air. force seven thousand of these indicators. It was pointed out: that • Admiral Kerr brought the claim, now only because the widow of .the Marquis was in reduced Milfordhaven lost . the ; greater part of his fortune invested in Russia. His invention saved the country hundreds of thousands, and increased the efficiency of the navy. v" Justice Tomlin expressed the opinion that the Commission, ought not to consider a State claim. If it had originally been.,; patented, the patent would have expired before the war. He promised an examination. The “Star” points out ' that the application is the more remarkable because the son of Mountbatten married'the principal ..heiress ( of Sir E. Cassel, whose will was ..sworn at six millions. A daughter married the Crown Prince of- Sweden.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 25 March 1925, Page 7
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