BIG LAWSUIT WON
FORMER FILM MAGNATE. TALKIE PATENTS INVOLVED. (United Press Assn. —Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 10.35 p.m.) Hollywood, October 11. Mr William Fox, once a powerful film magnate who supposedly passed from the scenes of important activitiy in 1930 when he lost control of his immense holdings, loomed up to-day as a sort of dictator of the talking film realm by virtue of his triumph in a suit over certain essential talkie patents. The United States Supreme Court, by refusing to review the case, upheld the rights of Mr Fox’s American Triergon Corporation to an accounting of the profits from all talking pictures since films began to talk. The corporation controls patents without which films of to-day cannot be made, having to do with the method of placing the sound track on films. Mr Fox’s corporation filed suits two year ago. The amount of damages that Mr Fox may collect under the Supreme Court decision ha(s been estimated at 100,000,000 dollars or more.
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Southland Times, Issue 22449, 12 October 1934, Page 7
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163BIG LAWSUIT WON Southland Times, Issue 22449, 12 October 1934, Page 7
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