APPEAL COURT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LX, Issue 143781, 3 May 1912, Page 7

APPEAL COURT.

THE MARCONI CASE. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON. May 3. Judgment was delivered in the case Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company v. the King (sent April 23)., The majority of the court (Justices Williams, Denniston, Edwards, and Chapman, Sir Robert Stout dissenting) held (1) that the petition disclosed a cause of action in respect to present user only, not in respect to threatened use under contract ; (2) that the court on a petition of right had a 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 (2) of the New Zealand Patents, Designs and Trade Marks Act, 1908. Each party is to pay its own costs.