WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 7852, 14 July 1911, Page 7

WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY

, , — t ——- AUSTRALIAN COASTAL RECORD. By Tslegraph—Prase Association-—Copyright SYDNEY, July 13. Tho steamers 'Cooma and Rivcrina established an Australian coastal wireless record, covering 2300 miles. MARCONI’S MASTER PATENT. MELBOURNE, July 13Air W. M. Hughes, Acting-Federal Premier, has received a reply from tho British Admiralty to tho question concerning tho effect of tho Parker judgment on installations of wireless telegraphy other than the Marconi oystom. Tho Admiralty declares that, subject to any appeal or further judicial decision that may affect tho judgment, no commercial system now known is outside the Marconi master patent. STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF “ WIRELESS.” DENIES INFRINGING MARCONI’S PATENT. (Received July 13, 0.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, July 13. Mr Denison, chairman of directors of the Australian Wireless, declares that tho company had never infringed Marconi's patent. Ho added that his company had protected its clients from all consequences that might result by a judgment for infringement of patents. Mr Hugh Denison, chairman of directors of tho Australian Wireless, Ltd., recently made tho following to the judgment alluded to in the foregoing cable message;—”As to the statement that tho Federal Ministers have been somewhat perturbed by a recent English Judgment regarding wireless patents, the position is as follows: —The Marconi Company has secured a judgment only against the British Eadio-Telegraphic and Telephone Company of London, for actually infringing one of its patents. It is,of course, only effective in England, and only against tho British Badio-Tele-graphio Company. The stations installed fn other countries by other firms, or wren by tho defendant company, aro not affected by tho judgment. Marconi claims that his patents hare been infringed by certain other companies, and it will therefore be necessary for him to institute proceedings against every individual company in each separate country in order to protect his rights. The possibility of a claim in Australia by Marconi on this ground docs not worry as in the slightest. First, becanso we ■have never infringed tho Marconi parents, and secondly because we # work exclusively on the quenohed-singing spark system, which cannot bo classed as a patent that has over belonged to Marconi. And we are in tho position, there- ' fore, to sell and erect and push the sale of the wireless stations of this system in Australia and New Zealand, in which countries wo hold the absolute patent rights. The Commonwealth Government has already protected itself in the contracts which aro being carried out by the Australian Wireless Company, by securing indemnity from that company in the event of any action being taken against them for infringement of patent rights,