THE WIRELESS CONTRACTS.
DECISION OF APPEAL COURT. [BY TELEGRAPH. —TRESS ASSOCIATION.] Wellington, Friday. The Appeal Court delivered reserved judgment in the case Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company v. the King (sent April 23). The majority of the-Court (Justices Williams, Denniston, Edwards, and Chapman, Chief Justice Sir Robert Stout dissenting) held : (1) That the petition disclosed a cause of action in respect of the present user • only, not in respect of • a threatened uaer under contract; (2) that the Court, on the petition of right, had the right to try the validity of a patent, also the question of user; (3) the Court could not give the relief claimed, but could make a declaratory decree as to user and the right to have compensation assessed under section 31, clause 2, of the New Zealand Patents, Designs, and Trades Mark Act, 1908. Each party is to pay its own costs.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14984, 4 May 1912, Page 7
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