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Show • • 1885 , 1\!Iarch 27 nsa l t Lake Herald 11 BELL AND :vlOLECDLAR S~ cured By Patented Right s D~cisions in Recent ~ uits Planted by It for Inf ringe ments The Bell Telephone Company pursues the even tenor of its way without manifesting any particular emotion at all the announcenents made by the Molecular organi za tion . A reporter of mrhe Hera ld , n who called at the office of the Bell , in the Deseret Na tioa Building , yesterday , to lea r ·n whether there was any truth in the rumor t hat the Molecular would be enjoined fro"m proceeding, f~und Mr . Charles s . Smith, the new Bell secretary , and Nir . Geo . Y. Wal l ace , the treasurer , in conversation ·upon a .topi c which naturally introduced the object of h is visit- -that of t he pa tent held by t ile Bell Corapany , and of the infringements whi ch '1ad from time to time been made upon it . "We intend to do no t hing , tt sa i d the . secretary, "at least until the controversy now go ing on in the courts of New York between our comr a.ay 31 d. the Molecula r is ·'e ttled . \Ve have had figh::. s one by one vvith the d i fferent companies which have sprung up and used M:r. Bell's invention, out all ha v ~ had to go to the wa ll . The courts and t he Patent Off ice ruling s alike ha ve unif or ~ l y been in our favor , and on the 30th of the present 11ont 1 a decis i o .1. in our suit aga inst the 11olecular company will be made . The ground is practically the sa ... e as t hat already gone over inJ..previous su its , and we have every. confidence in our case . Vf t'It will be sett l ed t his month , you say?" "Yes , I have here a letter" (ard he s hovv.ed it to the reporter) "stating tha t the ca s e is set for the 30t h , and that there is ... o rea~o n to expect that i t will be post poned; every point is in our favor. We have successfully beaten the McDonough company and the United s t ates company , ~ho were infringing on our patent , and as the 1\Jlolecu;taris equall y an inf ringement , we feel certain of cll..osing it up as we ll .,n "How about the Molecular's o perations in Ogden?" "We have not interferred wi t h them, because we were awaiting t he de c ision of the suit; t he parent company gone, and o f course all the agencies. must go too . n JVfr . Wallace said : nThe mat ter i n a nutshell is t his :.. l\Jlr . Bell discovered the princi ple of e l ectri c transmission of speech . |
